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Early Medieval bone object
Segment from a tusk of a boar, perforated and fixed with an iron nail to some larger object as an ornament. Dr Cornwall suggests that the large size of the tusk suggests that it comes from a wild boar. I have no parallels for this interesting ornament.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
62.203/F.12
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut XV, Layer 5B. Context A? A: Powdery soil, usually light in colour with some stone, much bone, charcoal flecking.
Acquisition
Donation, 14/6/1962
Measurements
length / mm:21
width / mm:19
thickness / mm:11
length / mm:22 (peg)
Material
tusk
iron
Techniques
carved
cut
drilled
Location
In store
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