<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Renáta,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have to second Alice. It is definitely a piece of an antler tip. The engraving looks Scandinavian to me, which would fit to the dating, but there are better experts on stylistic issues in the list than me. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nice piece anyway. May I use it as bonetool of the month the other day?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 05.03.2020 um 17:05 schrieb svecova <<a href="mailto:svecova@phil.muni.cz" class="">svecova@phil.muni.cz</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">Can I turn to you with a question about one very rare bone finding from Central Moravia?<br class=""><br class="">Finding Site: Olomouc, Křížkovského 10 Street<br class="">- finding from the settlement layer; the layer lay on prehistoric deposits, stratum with the bone artefact contained also early medieval ceramic sherds (with some prehistoric sherds as the admixture);<br class="">- layer dating: 2nd half of the 10th - early 11th century (preliminarily)<br class="">- bone artefact: rib of a large mammal; a fraction of the animal rib with regular and irregular grooves - some kind of an artistic engraving ornament/decoration<br class="">- max. length 12 cm; max. width 2,4 cm<br class=""><br class="">Could you recomend me some articles with analogous findings, if there exists one? I will be very thankful for any information about similar finds.<br class="">Does anybody know what that could be?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you very much in advance.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class=""><br class="">Renáta Přichystalová<span id="cid:32EA0085-C263-4917-BD5D-666B5E41CD0E"><DSCN4243.JPG></span><span id="cid:90BC5EF9-A3BE-43A5-8A0B-EBC2CA9C4A03"><DSCN4240.JPG></span><span id="cid:7DB44AEC-F624-49E4-9A24-95B01B4891D4"><DSCN4241.JPG></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>