Cream white bone point; long and tapering to a point; one side smooth, porous bone visible on the other side. [CC [Excav. PR] 13/12/2013].

Collection type: Object
Description: Cream white bone point; long and tapering to a point; one side smooth, porous bone visible on the other side. [CC [Excav. PR] 13/12/2013].
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland County Antrim Lough Ravel Crannog
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: 1865 July
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Animal Bone, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 151 mm, Weight 29 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.118.186
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object was obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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