<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=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Ian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for the details about the Ely artefacts. I have updated the post and added Louisa Gidney’s article as reference. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The artefact you sent yesterday reminds me of Roman toilet tools. See below a replica made by Monica Tielens (<a href="https://bikkelenbeen.com/nl/producten/Categorie/Persoonlijke+verzorging+VI/Toiletsetje/?artikelnummer=565&pagina=5" class="">https://bikkelenbeen.com/nl/producten/Categorie/Persoonlijke+verzorging+VI/Toiletsetje/?artikelnummer=565&pagina=5</a>). I would have to check for find locations of originals, but I know there are several of these from different places.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes</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 08.11.2021 um 12:49 schrieb Ian Riddler <<a href="mailto:trzaska2@outlook.com" class="">trzaska2@outlook.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hello Christian and Everybody,</div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This month’s bonetools are very well known, of course: they are bone raps from a site at Ely in Cambridgeshire. The object type has been very well discussed by Louisa Gidney:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="">Bone artefacts from medieval and post-medieval windmills: changing interpretations, in S. Vitezovi</span><span class="">ć</span><span class="">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Close to the Bone: Current Studies in Bone Technologies</i>, Belgrade (Belgrade Institute of Archaeology) 2016, 128-132.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">But I do have an unusual object to put forward instead! A very small pointed implement, just 18mm in length, from a Roman site in Cambridgeshire. The basal part includes accreted material, which has yet to be analysed. It means that the point was probably just 12mm in length. It has been cut from a midshaft, possibly of bird bone. It is the sort of object that may only emerge from sieving and I wonder if anybody has seen another one of this type and size?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Ian Riddler<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>