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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Group,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to confirm that this axe head is whale bone. It has not yet been identified to species, although this is now becoming possible. We have an article about to go into Antiquity about species identification of whale bone at Hamwic (Southampton,
England, 7th to 9th century AD) and I enclose a draft of that here.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:fionabeglane@yahoo.com">fiona beglane</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>06 April 2022 11:29<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools</a>; <a href="mailto:arlene@acsu.ie">
arlene@acsu.ie</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Bonetools] Antler Axe head</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I am looking for any parallels that people might know of. And also anyone's thoughts on function, as it would seem to me that it would have little use for woodworking
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you all, as always<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Fiona Beglane PhD MIAI</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Animal Bone Specialist<br>
Licensed Archaeologist<br>
Donegal, Ireland<br>
087 686 3914 (M)<br>
Alternate email address: beglane.fiona@itsligo.ie<br>
Atlantic Technological University, Sligo Campus<br>
http://itsligo.academia.edu/fionabeglane<br>
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