Description (Physical description)
Stag's antler, cut and drilled.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: '...stag's antler, cut and drilled...'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Auction / Sale)
1889.15.1-6 purchased for the museum in January 1889 for 2/8.
Event Date 1/1889
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Collected January 1889.
Event Date 1/1889
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The bone comb (Z 38634 A) was accessioned into the collection as 1889.15.1, as part of a larger group of objects described in the Annual Report (AR 1889.27) as: 'A bone comb (?for carding), found with fragments of Saxon pottery, bronze, iron, &c. Hauxton, Jan. 1889. Purchased.' and in the Accessions Register as 'A comb (?for carding) bone; a ?plough-share, iron; 3 small pieces of bronze; a stag's antler, cut & drilled. B[ought] 2/8. Hauxton, Jan. 1889.' It is possible that the 'stag's antler cut & drilled' refers to the bodkin/needle but it is also possible that the bodkin/needle is unrelated to the 1889.15 group and was merely accessioned with the comb because they were both from Hauxton.
Event Date 24/6/2014
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson