Objects of Worked Bone

Ryan, M. (ed), Irish Antiquities, 1998, 111-122

Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 179-199., 1986

An Iron Age ringheaded pin found on a recently excavated Early Medieval site in Co. Westmeath provides an opportunity to review the present state of research on this particular type of dress ornament in Ireland and to explore possible explanations for this unusual association. The excavation of an Early Medieval multipenod enclosure at Rochfort Demesne (Channing 2007, Channing 2008), on behalf of V.J. Keeley Ltd, has produced a rare examp an Iron Age ringheaded pin (E3315:59) in addition to the expected range of Early Med artefacts. Besides adding to our knowledge about this type of dress ornament, a radiocarbon for the context of the artefact reveals a curious history for this particular object. These d revealed that the pin had been re-deposited in Early Medieval times, thus raising interest questions regarding depositional practices on such sites. THE SITE The site is located on a glacial hillock on the eastern side of Lough Ennell in Roc townland, Co. Westmeath. Two phases of bank and ditch enclosures of Early Med succeeded by a Post-medieval ditch (Fig. 1 C6). The first enclosure of the site consisted of a single ditch (CIO) with an internal dia 39m. The ditch of the second phase enclosure (CI2) had an internal diameter of its bank survived where it had slipped into the ditch (CIO) of the first enclosure. shared similar entrance orientation with gaps in both the inner (CIO) and outer d their banks forming a causeway on the eastern side of the site (Fig. 1). While the rad from the basal fill of the first ditch CIO indicate a date in the 7-8th centuries A and AD 655-7692), a potentially later date of 7th-9th century AD (AD 690-95 03 from the basal fill of the second ditch CI2, confirmed by the stratigraphic seque in the 18th century, a further ditch and associated revetment wall were constru truncating both Early Medieval enclosures, and screening a small 18th century qu Several small pits were found in the interior of the site: based on the radiocarb date to the 9th-12th century AD. The results of the analysis of the high numbers found in pit and ditch fills indicates the predominant use of cattle on the site, wi deer in phase one and an increase in the amount of sheep/goat bones in the assem two (Svensson 2008,10). However, no evidence for secondary processing of bone on site and it is possible that the large numbers of bones represent feasting activi

An Iron Age ringheaded pin found on a recently excavated Early Medieval site in Co. Westmeath provides an opportunity to review the present state of research on this particular type of dress ornament in Ireland and to explore possible explanations for this unusual association. The excavation of an Early Medieval multipenod enclosure at Rochfort Demesne (Channing 2007, Channing 2008), on behalf of V.J. Keeley Ltd, has produced a rare examp an Iron Age ringheaded pin (E3315:59) in addition to the expected range of Early Med artefacts. Besides adding to our knowledge about this type of dress ornament, a radiocarbon for the context of the artefact reveals a curious history for this particular object. These d revealed that the pin had been re-deposited in Early Medieval times, thus raising interest questions regarding depositional practices on such sites. THE SITE The site is located on a glacial hillock on the eastern side of Lough Ennell in Roc townland, Co. Westmeath. Two phases of bank and ditch enclosures of Early Med succeeded by a Post-medieval ditch (Fig. 1 C6). The first enclosure of the site consisted of a single ditch (CIO) with an internal dia 39m. The ditch of the second phase enclosure (CI2) had an internal diameter of its bank survived where it had slipped into the ditch (CIO) of the first enclosure. shared similar entrance orientation with gaps in both the inner (CIO) and outer d their banks forming a causeway on the eastern side of the site (Fig. 1). While the rad from the basal fill of the first ditch CIO indicate a date in the 7-8th centuries A and AD 655-7692), a potentially later date of 7th-9th century AD (AD 690-95 03 from the basal fill of the second ditch CI2, confirmed by the stratigraphic seque in the 18th century, a further ditch and associated revetment wall were constru truncating both Early Medieval enclosures, and screening a small 18th century qu Several small pits were found in the interior of the site: based on the radiocarb date to the 9th-12th century AD. The results of the analysis of the high numbers found in pit and ditch fills indicates the predominant use of cattle on the site, wi deer in phase one and an increase in the amount of sheep/goat bones in the assem two (Svensson 2008,10). However, no evidence for secondary processing of bone on site and it is possible that the large numbers of bones represent feasting activi

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espanolElementos completos y fragmentados de objetos de hueso compuestos y de manufactura cuidada han sido documentados en contextos de epoca romana en la zona Noroeste de Europa; nuestro trabajo sugiere que estas formas pertenencen primeramente a la segunda mitad del II y comienzos del III siglo. Los investigadores han descrito diferentes posibles funciones para estos objetos, pero ninguna ha sido hasta la fecha satisfactoria. El conjunto analizado consiste en varios elementos de hueso torneado —dos cilindros conectados, en cuyos sendos extremos se observa un disco y un pequeno pomo o terminal. Este articulo considera un pequeno numero de elementos completos recuperados como elementos funerarios secundarios y emplea esta evidencia para interpretar un conjunto mayor de items incompletos, a veces tambien procedentes de sepulturas como ofrendas secundarias, pero mayormente recuperadas como restos de la pira funeraria. Interpretaciones previas de su uso han sido rechazadas a favour de ...

Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot), Vol. I. IAA Reports 52., 2013

1978

In" push" flaking the rigid support of both SLOne and pressor is required to insure an I'ven stress distribution. Resulting long, slender scars arp distinguished hy high, parallel sides forming common anises from, at or very near the edge. The classical example of this style of flaking is found in the parallel flaked Frederick points." Pull" flaking detaches the chip with a relatively quickly applied force.

Britannia, 1983