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Description: | In black ink: "Backaskale Sanday Orkney 113"
Backaskaill broch, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland MANU Unknown Copper engraving tool set in a boar's tusk handle, presumably used for cutting grooves in bone and antler during the making of small pins, awls, etc. Accession book reads "tusk with bronze point" | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CURSITER_PROJECT : GRAVING_TOOL : BOARS_TUSK : SMALL_TOOL : DUNCAN : SCRIBER : BONE_SCOTLAND : : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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