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Early Medieval bone comb
Composite single sided bone comb with sections of three tooth plates surviving with 28 broken off teeth. The upper plate edge has a single circular perforation and the upper edge has been cut to a zig-zag shape, decorated with oblique saw lines. The side plates are secured by 2 small iron rivets and one side plate (probably both) is decorated with an incised lattice pattern.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
98.51H [1925]
Find Information
Site Name: Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey
Collection Method: Excavation
Date: 1998 / Aug
Acquisition
donation, 11/1998
Measurements
Length
(mm): 49.5 (remaining)
Length
(mm): 39 (side plate)
Width
(mm): 21 (complete tooth plate)
maximum width
(mm): 35 (remaining)
thickness
(mm): 3
Weight
(g): 7
Material
Bone
Iron
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