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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval ivory comb (16th-17th centuries). The one-piece comb has been formed from a single piece of ivory, possibly cetacean bone given that the comb was crafted in one piece and that the teeth had to be aligned with the grain (MacGregor 1985). The comb is double-sided, with the scars for a set of coarse teeth on one side of a central reserve and a set of fine teeth on the other, a few of which are now missing. The elliptical section of the comb means that although the teeth are slender in profile, from front to back they are considerably wider. The central reserve has a crude incised decoration on front and back, with a circle containing a geometric, six-petalled flower at the axis between the central reserve and end, and an empty oval at the middle of the central reserve. The boundaries of the central reserve are not symmetrical; the fine teeth meet the reserve in a straight line, but where the coarse teeth have been carved out, the boundary of the central reserve slopes, so that the reserve tapers toward the end section that is now lost. The remaining end section of the comb is narrow, undecorated and tapers toward the side with the coarse teeth. One laminated sheet of the ivory has been lost at this corner. The elliptical section of the comb does not demonstrate much work; there is no decoration, and it does not appear to have been deliberately shaped. Dimensions: Length: 64.20mm; width: 50.32mm; thickness: 3.09mm; weight: 9.63g. MacGregor (1985, 81) dates similar double-sided combs with thicker cross-sections to the medieval period and those with thinner cross-sections to the post-medieval period.Reference: MacGregor, A. (1985) Bone, Antler, Ivory & Horn: The Technology of Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period. London: Croom Helm
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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