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Early Bronze Age antler fragment

The artefact is rolled and smoothed by the action of the sea. Made of the naturally shed proximal end of the main shaft of a juvenile red deer antler. The crown bears no evidence of use as a hammer. The brow tine has been removed and the perforation runs through, and has completely removed, the 'bez' tine. The axis of the shaft hole lies at right angles to the position of the sheath. The truncation lies short of the 'trez' tine and the distal end has been hollowed out, for use as a sheath. It cannot be inferred whether the antler is part of a composite adze or axe. There is evidence of intense battering around much of the circumference of the beam close to the distal truncation; this has clearly been the working end. Radiocarbon dated; OX A-3813.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

95.36H

Find Information

Site Name: Mochras (Shell Island), Harlech

Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1987

Notes: discovery was made in the intertidal zone.

Acquisition

Donation, 21/5/1995

Measurements

weight / g:143.0
length / mm:116.0
maximum diameter / mm:52.0 (burr/coronet)
diameter / mm
minimum diameter / mm:29-33.0 (beam)
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:14.0 *

Material

antler

Location

In store

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