References:
Artefact #3874 on the "World of the Vikings CD-ROM" (nej, jag vet inte vad det är) is a picture of "Lucet,
Bone," from Lund. Artefact #2237, also "Lucet, Bone," is from York. Artefact
#2453, also "Lucet, Bone," from Coppergate (York) shows a photo of a
two-pronged implement with a piece of lucet cord being worked on it. Artefact
#2455, also "Lucet, Bone," is a photo of several implements from Pavement
(York). None of these have holes drilled in them; they're simply two-pronged
implements.
In Arthur MacGregor's _Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank, Pavement,
and Other Sites_, The Archaeology of York vol. 17, fascicule 3 (York: York
Archaeological Trust, 1982), on pages 95-96, is discussion of seven
"double-pronged bone implements." They are "nasal bones of cattle" and have
two prongs at one end. They've been highly smoothed, especially at the
pronged end. He cites comparison with finds from other sites, especially one
from Lund. These seem to be the implements pictured in the Viking CD-ROM.
The Lund piece is alluded to on pp. 192-193 of _Arthur MacGregor's _Bone
Antler Ivory & Horn: The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman
Period_ (London/Totowa NJ: Croom Helm/Barnes & Noble, 1985). There he says:
"Blomqvist and Martensson (1963) have published a double-pointed
implement cut from the shaft of a long bone which they identify as a
thread-twister (see also Graham-Campbell 1980). Although not identical to the
find mentioned above, somewhat similar objects have been recovered from late
Saxon Thetford, Norfolk (unpublished) and from twelfth-cetury contexts at
Castle Acre, Norfolk (Margeson in Coad and Streeter 1982), Waltham Abbey,
Essex (Huggins 1976; see Figure 93d) and Aardenburg in the Netherlands
(Trimpe-Burger 1966). Two others are in the British Museum (unpublished).
Plaited yarns could have been produced from threads attached to the terminal
points and drawn through the tubular shaft of the bone. This function has
recently been confirmed by Elisabeth Crowfoot (in Coad and Streeter 1982), who
suggests the term 'lucet'."
The Crowfoot source is:
J.G. Coad and A.D.F. Streeter, "Excavations at Castle Acre Castle,
Norfolk, 1972-1977," _Archaeological Journal_ 139 (1982),
pp. 138-301.
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EvaStatistik: Postat av Eva Andersson — 7 maj 2004, 13:25
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