Viking Thread Maker - Photos and Description

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ILL got this book to me earlier this week:

 

Viking Artefacts: A Select Catalogue by James Graham-Cambell (ISBN: 0-7141-1354-9)

 

 

Description:

 

82. Bone thread-maker

Lund, Skåne, Sweden

Lund (Kulturen): KM 53436:572

 

Two-pronged implement of hollow bone, with highly polished surface. L 5.8 cm

 

From the Thule excavations (1000-50). Such bones were used for twining threads; a similar thread-maker from Lund has runes inciced on it with the words tinbl bein (‘tvindeben’) (Blomqvist and Mårtensson 1963, 57 fig. 41: Moltke 1976. 376, 378). Date: LVP.

 

Lit. Blomqvist and Mårtensson 1963, 174, fig. 179.

Well,