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

[Kazimierz Złowieszczy]

Looking closer at the charges, I no longer believe them to be stylized
shears. I believe that they are barnacles, or broyes, as defined and
illustrated on this webpage.
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/broye.htm

<http://www.heraldica.org/topics/broye.htm>Any thoughts?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM, mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:

> 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 ZĹ'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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