[Ansteorra] mystery tools (was: arrowhead type identification)
mikea
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Thu Oct 22 13:28:03 PDT 2009
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 ZÅowieszczy 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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Mike Andrews / Michael Fenwick Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx / Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
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