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Upper Palaeolithic bone spatula
Spatula made on a horse metapodial. The end is polished with small use chips removed from the end. Midway along are two notches making a shoulder, possibly to bind something to. The proximal end of the tool is cancellous on its inner surface and it is smoothed at its ends. The words Paviland Cave are written on it in faint black ink.
Spatula made from horse bone, found with the ‘Red Lady’. 30000 BCE.
The ‘Red Lady’ is one of the oldest burials of a modern human in Europe. 32,000 years ago a young man in his twenties was given a rich burial. At first he was thought to be female as shell beads and ivory rings found in the grave might have been worn as ornaments or sewn to his clothing. There were also broken ivory rods placed around his body. His remains are housed in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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Site Name: Paviland Cave, Rhossili