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Description: | Fragment of bone knife or comb handle. This fragment is subrectangular in plan and flattened but semicircular in section. It is decorated on the curved face with long diagonally carved lines that abut shorter diagonally carved lines in a sort of ?off set? herringbone pattern. Either end is broken with an irregular end. Break edges are worn smooth suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The reverse of the fragment is plain but cracked and abraded. The object is beige in colour. It has a surviving length of 34.7mm, is 19.56mm wide, 5.8mm thick and weighs 3.93g. The break edges appear to have broken at the point of rivet holes, though the worn nature of the object makes this impossible to state with any certainty. It was possibly part of a two piece knife handle or part of a comb plate and is probably Roman in date. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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