Viking Thread Maker - Photos and Description
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,