Bone Parchment Pricker
Item
- Title
- Bone Parchment Pricker
- Coverage
- Medieval
- Late 14th - early 15th century
- Medium
- Bone
- Subject
- Parchment Pricker
- On Display At
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Barley Hall
- Description
- A parchment pricker made from a strip of longbone, with a spherical head. The shaft has a circular section tapering below the head and then swelling slightly before tapering again to the tip. The iron tip is missing. There are decorative concentric grooves just below the head and on the upper parts of the shaft.
- Excavation
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A0021 The Bedern, South-west
- Is Referenced By
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Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn from Anglo--Scandinavian and Medieval York
- Catalogue Number
- 8039
- Type
- Physical Object
- Identifier
- SC1977-13_SF1978
- Publisher
- York Archaeology
- Date Available
- 28th May 2025
- Image Rights
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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