File:Prehistoric bone needle (FindID 519538).jpg

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Prehistoric bone needle
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Museum of London, Kate Sumnall, 2012-09-06 06:55:23
Title
Prehistoric bone needle
Description
English: A needle made from animal skeletal material - bone, probably dating late Bronze Age to Roman. The base of the needle is bulbous and has a circular, hourglass perforation. After the perforation the needle tapers down to the points. The surface of the needle is highly polished due to use/wear.

Alan Pipe notes: the needle has been made from a slab of bone from the mid shaft of a long bone from an animal such as cattle, horse or red deer. If this is prehistoric it is more likely to have been made from red deer.

MacGregor (1985: 193) discusses bone needles and he notes that the size would have made the needle too large to be used with any but the coarsest materials.

Jon Cotton agrees it may be Prehistoric but based on form it is impossible to be certain.

Dimensions: length: 107.9mm; width: 8mm; thickness: 4.1mm; internal diameter of the perforation: 2.78mm; weight: 3.23g.

Reference: MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Greater London Authority
Date between 1150 BC and 410
Accession number
FindID: 519538
Old ref: LON-83A573
Filename: Wells-BNNeedle-May12.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/395681
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/395681/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/519538
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 3 December 2020)
Object location51° 27′ 19.08″ N, 0° 12′ 33.67″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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