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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I agree it may be a handle but look at its size: 7 cm minus the right edge which was probably connected to the blade – rather small for a knife! Certainly too
short for my hand. I suggest it belonged to a more delicate tool, perhaps a woman's with a smaller hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Etan Ayalon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Idoia Grau<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 09, 2017 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bonetools] Roman artefact Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Good morning everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">A colleague who is excavating at a Roman site in northern Spain has sent me the picture attached of an artefact and they are wondering what it might be. Any thoughts? I apologise for the bad quality
of the photo, but they sent it to me directly from the field. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The object is around 7 cm long and is composed of two flat pieces, with bits of iron in the thiner end (the right one in the photo), like if it was studded in order to put something else there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks for your help in advance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Idoia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="ecxmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Idoia Grau Sologestoa</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Basque Government</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">University of Sheffield - Department of Archaeology</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">University of the Basque Country - Departamento de Geograf??a, Prehistoria y Arqueolog??a<br>
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