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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Renata,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks for showing us all the lovely comb from Pohansko. It is hard to find good parallels for it. I have checked some of the Bavarian cemetery reports but I could find nothing there, and this type of comb with inward-facing beasts
is not really a feature of Alemannic cemeteries either, most of which only extend into the early eighth century in any case. The general absence of this type of end segment from these cemeteries suggests that they are a later phenomenon.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ipswich End Segments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We do have a number of comb fragments from England, almost all of which consist only of the end segments, but they are clearly of the same general type. They are a long way away from you but they
include the same type of inward-facing beast. There are three examples from Hamwic and three from Ipswich. The Ipswich end segments are not well-dated at all and come from contexts of
<i>c </i>670-870. The Hamwic end segments are much better dated but one of them (SOU15.5) is unstratified and I dont have information about the large segment from SOU177 unfortunately. The third example (SOU31 1178) comes from Six Dials context of
<i>c</i> 850-900, which fits well with your dating. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It may well be that these are all ninth-century combs.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:svecova@phil.muni.cz">Renáta Přichystalová</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>11 April 2022 16:34<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<br>
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I would like to ask you for help with my searching of analogy to the <br>
antler comb from site Pohansko near Břeclav (CZ).<br>
This is early medieval stronghold (9th - first half of 10th cen.). The <br>
comb was found in 3 pieces above the remains of christian church - a <br>
rotunda.<br>
There is an article about this rotunda is there: in journal Památky <br>
archeologické from 2014:<br>
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV">https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV</a><br>
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According my investigation: the comb we can assign to the group IB, type <br>
VII (variety 9a or 9c) or type VIII (variety 4) - classification <br>
according to Eugeniusz Cnotliwy 1973: Rzemioslo rogownicze na Pomorzu <br>
wczenioredniowiecznym. This king of a comb is dated in the turn of the <br>
9th and 10th century AD.<br>
According to fig. 28 in the monograph of A. Chmielowska (1971) - it <br>
could be the comb of group IB, type 9, variety e - dated since 11th to <br>
13th century AD.<br>
(titel: Grzebiene starozytne i redniowieczne z ziem polskich).<br>
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Please, does anybody know about some similar finding?<br>
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I will be thankful for any information.<br>
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Thank you in advance.<br>
<br>
Renáta P.<br>
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Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D.<br>
Department of Archaeology and Museology<br>
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University<br>
Arna Nováka 1<br>
CZ-602 00 Brno<br>
Tel. No. 00420 54949 7416<o:p></o:p></p>
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