double bevel base point;
portable art
- Museum number
- Palart.358
- Description
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Incomplete double bevelled point (antler) plano-convex in section and broken across the shaft. Lower surface is undecorated; upper, here formed of cellular tissue, is corroded. Each side is decorated with two schematised fish cut in low relief; one complete, one now incomplete. All face towards the left so that, when seen from below, they form a symmetrically balanced pattern. The two complete fish have long, bar-like tails and all four are marked with a median line, the zone below that being shaded with vertical lines. The back line of all four fish is now missing, due to corrosion of the interior antler tissue.
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.30 centimetres
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Thickness: 1 centimetres
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Width: 1.40 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Exacavated by both Christy and Lartet in 1863.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Palart.358