Materials of Manufacture: The choice of materials in the working of bone and antler in northern and central Europe during the first millennium AD

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The original impetus for this volume came from a small and informal conference held at the British Museum in 1997. The conference, in itself, was an inaugural meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group, an organisation set up shortly before to allow specialists in the study of worked bone, antler, ivory and horn to meet together and discuss assemblages, themes and work in progress. In collating these papers, it became clear that a general theme of materials and their use could be established. Equally, a specific, if fairly broad, time frame of the first millennium AD could also be defined. With these parameters determined, it was possible to enlarge the volume by commissioning extra texts and updating several others, and to bring all of these together into a small monograph. Northern and central Europe witnessed enormous changes in the transition from the Roman to the medieval world across the first millennium AD. This volume pursues some of the common elements, as well as noting change over time. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Contents The Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction ELK ANTLER AS A MATERIAL OF MANUFACTURE: Finds from Late Republican/Early Imperial ‘old Virunum’ on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, southern Austria THE IDENTIFICATION OF FALLOW DEER (DAMA DAMA) REMAINS FROM ROMAN MONKTON, THE ISLE OF THANET, KENT RECYCLING WORKED BONE IN PANNONIA: Data on the curation of workshop debitage and worn/damaged objects in the Roman bone manufacturing industry UN ATELIER DE PRODUCTION DE PEIGNES EN BOIS DE CERF DE LA FIN DE L’ANTIQUITÉ TARDIVE À SAINT-CLAIR-SUR-EPTE (EURE) A LESSER MATERIAL: The Working of Roe Deer Antler in England during the Anglo-Saxon Period BIAS FROM BONE WORKING AT MIDDLE SAXON HAMWIC, SOUTHAMPTON LATE SAXON WORKED ANTLER WASTE FROM HOLY ROOD, SOUTHAMPTON (SOU106)