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Actions	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberOM-16289 DescriptionAntler peg, whittled to a point at each end, round in cross-section. One end seems to have broken in antiquity. On the other end the facets are blunted and polished with use. The peg seems to have been competently made but it is not highly-finished. It may have been made locally, since there would seem to be little need to import such an object, but there is a possibility that it got to the site as part of a larger complex object. 81mm long, 10mm dia(max). 1981 trench, level 1.2 Skaill Site 6 south, Sk81.6.1.2. Buteux 1997, 137, category 9.2.20 Production periodIron Age / Pictish, Late Iron Age Collection PlaceSkaill, Deerness. Site 6 Object namepeg, antler Object categoryantler peg Materialantler

Object numberOM-16289

DescriptionAntler peg, whittled to a point at each end, round in cross-section. One end seems to have broken in antiquity. On the other end the facets are blunted and polished with use. The peg seems to have been competently made but it is not highly-finished. It may have been made locally, since there would seem to be little need to import such an object, but there is a possibility that it got to the site as part of a larger complex object. 81mm long, 10mm dia(max). 1981 trench, level 1.2 Skaill Site 6 south, Sk81.6.1.2. Buteux 1997, 137, category 9.2.20

Production periodIron Age / Pictish, Late Iron Age

Collection PlaceSkaill, Deerness. Site 6

Object namepeg, antler

Object categoryantler peg

Materialantler

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