Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Socketed point

Object category

Anglo-Scandinavian

Description

Bone socketed point, decorated with incised lines dividing the bone into several sections. The sections are decorated with diagonal incised lines. The end of the bone which is retained (the proximal portion of the metatarsal) is not worked. Waterman 1959 describes this and three other similar examples "of gouge like form, normally made from the metatarsal bones of ox; the are sometimes hollowed along the length, as if to receive a handle, and are trimmed on one side to form a blunt point. Like the antler points these objects are usually ornamented by transverse and diagonal incisions." See YORYM : C594.2, C593, C590 and C584 for examples of antler tines decorated in a similar fashion.

Production date start

866

Production date end

1066

Period

Anglo-Scandinavian