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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Marloes,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I haven’t seen anything quite like these things but we do have perforated rib bone implements of late Bronze Age to Iron Age date, found mainly in Cambridgeshire and around the Fens. The spacing of the perforations is different, however
(there are usually just two, but greater numbers do occur occasionally). Here is an image of a pair of them,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:marloesrijkelijkhuizen@hotmail.com">Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>11 May 2021 18:59<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Bonetools] weaving coils?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">A question from a colleague. These objects have been described as 'weaving coils', but has anyone seen similar examples or has any idea about their function? The description from my colleague:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="NL">The ‘weaving coils’ were found in a waste dump located in a stream bed north of the city of Sittard (Southern part of the Netherlands). The waste dump has a wide date range (Late Bronze Age to Late Roman Period) but the
coils are located in the lower parts of the waste dump and are probably Iron Age or even Late Bronze Age. One is made of red deer antler. The other, half finished one, is made of bone (catte rib) and shows several cut marks at both tapered ends.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="NL">Best wishes, Marloes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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