<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>the french name is TRICOTIN, you can go on with it on Google</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Alice Choyke" <choyke@gmail.com><br><b>À: </b>"Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Samedi 6 Mars 2021 21:38:03<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [Bonetools] three pronged tools<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Marloes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> I am willing to bet these are some kind of wool thread knitting spools (or knitting nancy). Today, they are mostly four pronged.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Alice</div><img src="cid:ii_kly6tu0d0" alt="image.png" width="400" height="399"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:10 PM Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen <<a href="mailto:marloesrijkelijkhuizen@hotmail.com" target="_blank">marloesrijkelijkhuizen@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I hope that you are all doing well!</div>
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I have a question about these 'three-pronged tools'. This one is incomplete, but originally had three pronges as well. Use wear analysis shows that these objects were used in wool working. They are usually made of cattle metcarpals and are dated between in
the Netherlands between the 9th and 13th century AD. </div>
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I am looking for parallells abroad. Has anyone seen such tools?</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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Marloes</div>
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