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Collection Item: Comb Case
Basic info
- Collection
- Archaeology
- Object name
- Comb case
- Object category
- Anglo-Scandinavian
- Description
- Waterman 1959 describes this and other comb cases like it : "The single-edged comb was sometimes carried in a case, provided with two perforations, one for suspension of the case from the person, the other corresponding to a hole in the end-plate of the comb itself, which could thus be secured in position by means of a peg. The normal Viking comb case is composed of two strips of boneon each side, held togther by end plates of little or no projection; the back is of convex outline, corresponding to the back of the combwhen placed in the case. The type persists into the eleventh to twelfth centuries, at least [this example] bears on the back edge an incomplete runic inscription." The inscription is very faint.
- Production date start
- 866
- Production date end
- 1066
- Period
- Anglo-Scandinavian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 1948.616
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 7618
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Bone (Whole)
- Iron (material) (Rivets)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 3.2 cm
- Whole width 11.9 cm
- Whole depth 1.2 cm
Find spot
- Method
- Casual find
- Place
- York
