[Ansteorra] mystery tools (was: arrowhead type identification)

[mikea]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Coblaith Muimnech wrote:
> I pointed to:
> ><http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00018706/images/ 
> >index.html?seite=543>
> 
> Lochlan asked:
> >What are the two charges in the bottom right?
> 
> and Pan Kazimierz ZÅ‚owieszczy commented:
> >I think those are shears, but the one on the right is stylized.
> 
> I don't know what they are, but I don't think it's shears.  There are  
> both spring-type <http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/ 
> bsb00018706/images/index.html?seite=440> and pivot-type <http:// 
> daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00018706/images/index.html? 
> seite=358> shears on other pages of the manuscript, and neither looks  
> anything like the mystery charge.

"Ritual objects" -- a term an archaelogist applies to anything that
he/she can't identify, including such mundane and obvious things as
arrow straighteners.

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