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Description: | A Late Medieval - Modern bone button or bead making waste fragment. This is a worked fragment of a long bone or rib, cut to form a D-shaped cross-section. There are 21 circular holes where discs have been cut from the fragment. This sort of object is impossible to date. MacGregor notes that they are found in Late Medieval to modern contexts (1985, 101).Dimensions: diameter of perforations: 6.27 mm; length: 99.11 mm; width: 22.57 mm; thickness: 4.72 mm; weight: 7.44g.Reference: MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney.
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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