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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. Ivory?
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
62.203/F.12.2
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Collection Method: Excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut XIV, 4 West Layer 2. Context U U: Unstratified.
Acquisition
donation, 14/6/1962
Measurements
Length
(mm): 25
Width
(mm): 22
thickness
(mm): 10
Material
Tusk
Iron
Ivory
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