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I would like to come back to that object - I am now back at the lab
- with an experience and a remark<br>
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The experience is : I changed (that spring) the bronze "lion paws"
of a definitly british furniture of my wife (a "sewig table", i'd
say), with 4 little weel under the 4 paws. Pegs (wood) and suckets
(bronze) are rectangular in section (so as to prevent rotation). I
had to file a little bit the wood ; it was a precise work.<br>
<br>
The remark, now : a significant difference with the Rõuge birds is
the hole that these have through the body, for fixing them as litlle
ivory eskimo figurines (seals, etc.) on kayaks etc. : they are
brackets (rather than pendants).. The "tufted head" was bond by at
least one end in a setting ; either an intermediate piece, or a
piece setted by the "neck" and wearing a metal beak (reallistic or
as a trumpet, as in some medieval images).<br>
<br>
But the regularity of the pegs, and their lightly reducing diameters
towards the end are rather convinvcing that they were not
definitive, "sleeping", but removable as for a clasp/fasterber/hasp.
I would even suggest the the "bill" was mobile, and that a
bond/tie.link was inserted in/through the section in front of the
bill, and hooked/catched behind the tuft when the "thing" (the whole
object) was closed. A simple action of a finger (thumb ?) was enough
to pick up the tie and open. Wat do the traces of waer say about
that ?<br>
<br>
Yoyur's sincerely.<br>
<br>
Le 23/08/2013 13:19, Tuukka Kumpulainen a écrit :
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<p>Thank you all for your commentary - Brian, Francois, Alice
& Heidi!</p>
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<p>The bird-pendant hypothesis is an intriguing one, and also
proposed by our digging team. A swimming, tufted diver duck
can be seen there. However, I wonder why the maker would have
positioned the 'beak' in such an unrealistic angle if a bird
image was called for? The 'beak' would be plowing water, in
this case, and neither the non-existent 'neck' nor the
straight, flat 'body' seem avian all that much if at all.
Compared to the Rõuge bird pendants, for instance, this
artefact is very angular and straight-lined, the 'head' is
huge compared to the 'body', the 'eyes' even more so. Much
skill and effort was put into the artefact, but to make it
<em>less</em> bird-like and more tool-like, to my eyes: it is
almost trigger- or clasp-like. At any rate, in the absence of
analoguous functional finds, the bird pendant hypothesis
remains, for now.</p>
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<p>Tuukka</p>
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<div>Dear Tuukka,<br>
<br>
Francois Poplin's assumption about duck came to my mind
also. Your bone object remind me some bird shaped pendants
from the Viking Age site Rõuge and from some other sites in
Southeast Estonia (last quarter of 1st millennium AD). But
pendants from Rõuge have more rounded cross-sections. I add
a page from my manuscript with drawing of these pendants, I
do not have photos of these objects.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Heidi<br>
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Heidi Luik<br>
Institute of History, Tallinn University<br>
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At 16:31 20.08.2013, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">It let me thing of a tufd duck,
maybe <i>Aythya fuligula</i> - swimming.
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Le 19/08/2013 17:00, Tuukka Kumpulainen a écrit : <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear Alice,<br>
<br>
An osteologist has not yet examined the artefact, so I
can't tell, for now, if antler or bone is in question.
Let's call it 'osseous' for now, which it is. The vast
majority of previous osseous finds from the site are
made from cattle, horse or moose bone, but moose and
reindeer antler is also present. <br>
<br>
This is an absolutely complete object - both ends are
intentionally shaped and intact, and the dirt-laden hole
in the 'head' is a precise 5 mm bore hole right through
the object, reminding a perforation for an axle of some
sort. The end closest to the perforation is precisely
cut into a rectangular shape. There is no macroscopic
wear on the most intriguing areas of the artefact, that
is, the rectangular end mentioned and the 'lip' or
'hook' at the other side of the 'axle hole'.
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Dear Tuukka,<br>
Two question - is it really made of bone or is this
antler? Second, is this an absolutely complete object or
are the ends broken. Third where are the designs worn? -
this may help you decide whether it was held in the hand
or attached to something else. Finally - is that a hole
in the 'head' of the object or just dirt?<br>
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Best,<br>
Alice<br>
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<dd>Recently, a mysterious bone artefact was found
from Tursiannotko, Southwestern Finland, during
rescue excavations on a multi-period site.
Preliminary contextual evidence concerning this find
points to a Late Iron Age (c. AD 800 - 1200) dating.<br>
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<dd>The artefact is of such a complex and detailed
design and execution, that I think mere ornamental
explanations won't suffice - to me, the find
reflects precise functionality, yet I have not
encountered anything like this before, and our
entire crew is at a loss as to the find's ID. Any
parallels of this type of artefact, or suggestions
of its function, would be more than welcome. I'm
keeping my few own interpretations to myself, for
now :)<br>
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<dd>Thank you,<br>
<br>
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<dd>Tuukka Kumpulainen<br>
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<dd>University of Turku<br>
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