<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Josje,<div><br></div><div>while I have no idea about the function of Johnny Karlssons finds, your question of the function of the hole at the proximal end of a skate can be solved. These type of bone skates is not rare and there are several ones found with a peg still inside the hole. Check the paper I wrote with Petar Zidarov for the WBRG-Tallinn volume and the bone skates database for related finds and references at <a href="http://www.knochenarbeit.de/eigene_arbeiten/skating_on_bones.pdf">http://www.knochenarbeit.de/eigene_arbeiten/skating_on_bones.pdf</a></div><div><a href="http://www.knochenarbeit.de/index.php?page=bone_skates">http://www.knochenarbeit.de/index.php?page=bone_skates</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Christian</div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>Am 21.11.2014 um 16:07 schrieb Josje van Leeuwen:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear mr. Karlsson,</div><div> </div><div>The bones you showed are new to me, but I have found something similar in Medemblik, the Netherlands (a medieval trading settlement). It was a metacarpal horse bone with a single hole in the proximal end. The distal end had two holes just under the joint, probably used to bind it to something. It was clearly used as an iceskate, but I couldn't see how they would attach it to a foot with a hole in the distal end... My interpretation is that it was probably used as skates for a sled (with two such bones placed one in front of the other with perhaps a stick in between). I have never seen anything like it, though, and perhaps it is similar in a way to your find. It dates to around 1100.</div><div> </div><div>I look forward to other reactions!</div><div> </div><div>Yours sincerely,</div><div> </div><div>Josje van Leeuwen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-21 15:44 GMT+01:00 Johnny Karlsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnny.karlsson@ofl.su.se" target="_blank">johnny.karlsson@ofl.su.se</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Palatino Linotype">Dear all,
<u></u>
<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Palatino Linotype">I hope you can help me with some odd bone objects from medieval <span>Sigtuna</span></font><a></a><font face="Palatino Linotype">
in Sweden. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Palatino Linotype">During a research on medieval bone skates from the town, I and a colleague came
across some bones that seem to have another function at least primary. It is only metacarpal bones from cattle and they have two holes at the proximal joint, see photo. The holes are uneven and look carved rather than drilled. Usually the holes reach the medullar
cavity. In two cases it is evident that the bones secondary have been used as skates, in two other cases they exhibit transverse striations on the <span>diaphysis</span></font><a></a><font face="Palatino Linotype">
(see photo). But the majority of them show no sign of use at all except these two proximal holes. We identified about twenty of them from one particular trench in layers dating to the 12<sup>th</sup> century, but they do appear in smaller numbers in other
parts of town.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Palatino Linotype">Has anyone of you seen something similar? Does anyone know their function?<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Palatino Linotype">Thank
you in advance,<br>
Johnny <span>Karlsson</span></font><a></a></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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