Bone Parchment Pricker
Item
- Title
- Bone Parchment Pricker
- Coverage
- Medieval
- Early 14th century
- Medium
- Bone
- Subject
- Parchment Pricker
- Description
- A parchment pricker. It is made from a strip of longbone. It has a spherical head with a single collar below it. The shaft has a circuar section and is decorated with bands of incised lines, tapering very slightly towards the tip which is broken. The point is lost.
- Excavation
-
A0021 The Bedern, South-west
- Is Referenced By
-
Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn from Anglo--Scandinavian and Medieval York
- The Art of Writing And Manuscript Production
- Catalogue Number
- 8037
- Type
- Physical Object
- Identifier
- SC1978-13_SF2622
- Publisher
- York Archaeology
- Date Available
- 9th June 2025
- Image Rights
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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