POTTERY.
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Hackney Wick [133].
[Vide also 236].
IX.—Bone Implements.
Braintree (F. W. Reader, E.N., xvi., 1909, pp. 82-
96, 16 figs.). Worked bone made from the metacarpal
of a horse. It is perforated towards either end, and has
a wide and deep notch cut out towards the proximal
end of the shaft. Eleven other examples of the same
form are recorded from other localities ; this specimen
being from Braintree. A comparison of these objects
with bone skates, pin-polishers, etc., is entered into. 189
Cricket-bat Burnishers (H. Mothersole, E.N., xviii., 1915,
pp. 30-31). Metapodial of horse were used for this purpose
up to 50 years ago. One example presented to the E.F.C.
Museum. 190
Pin-polishers (E.N., xiii., 1904, p. 261). These have small
grooves, in which the pin was placed for filing, and they
show the transverse file-marks [189]. 191
Bark-peeler? (W. G. Smith, E.N., x., 1898, pp. 310-312, fig.).
The implement is about 13 inches long, it has a chisel end,
showing transverse striae and a small perforation near
the butt. It is made in red deer antler. Stated to have
been found at Wormingford, 10 feet from the surface, in
the Alluvium of the Stour. 192
Bark-peeler (E. Lovett, E.N., x., 1898. pp. 315-353, fig.).
Describes a similar implement, only made in bone, with
an old pen-knife blade fixed in a hole near the butt-end.
It was formerly used for peeling birch bark in Normandy,
the iron blade making the preliminary incision. Birch
bark was formerly much used, and is so still for small boxes,
etc. The North American Indians use a similar tool for
birch bark peeling. 193
Perforated Axes and Hammers in antler [144]
[Vide also 311]
X.—Pottery.
a. British (Neolithic and Bronze Age).
Felstead (J. French, E.N., v., 1891, p. 205). A dish, 8 inches
diameter and 4 inches high, found in a gravel pit at North
End. The ware is coarse, with much crushed flint, and
is imperfectly baked. 194
Audley End (E.N., xvi., 1910, p. 186). Brief note of Bronze
Age, Late Celtic, and Romano-British burial urns, all
being found in the same gravel pit. 195