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Length: 3.000 cm
P&EE 1939 10-11 151
Room 50: Britain and Europe
Daily life in Iron Age Britain
Bone needle
This small, forgotten needle was made from an animal bone left over from preparing a meal. It would have been used to sew clothes made from wool and linen by someone living on a farm at Little Woodbury, near the modern city of Salisbury, over 2200 years ago.
Did a man or woman drop this needle inside their round house after finishing sewing? Or was it a boy or a girl? Whoever it was, the needle was lost and forgotten for over 2000 years before being found by archaeologists in 1939.
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