animal remains

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Object Type
Museum number: Palart.515
Description: Fragment of flat bone with modern breaks at both ends and a much fresher appearance than the other bones in the collection. Both faces are marked with parallel, diagonal and some slightly curving lines that are probably cutmarks made during butchery rather than decoration.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Courbet Cave
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 50 millimetres; Weight: 3.30 grammes; Thickness: 4 millimetres; Width: 20 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Sieveking 1987 / A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum (515); Owen 1869 / Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel and its organic contents
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Palart.515
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1864.1226.1068

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