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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:1986.69.119 Institution name Colchester Collections Object name flute Description Bone flute with two holesThe 'flute' was examined on 15 November 2005 by one Helen Leaf, a post-graduate student at University College London working on a doctoral thesis dealing with medieval flutes. Helen said the object was not a flute because one of the perforations should be d-shaped (and none of them are) and the object is too short. Helen had no idea what the object was. She also pointed out that it had been cut at both ends by a saw showing that it had been cut by a bone-worker rather than a butcher. Production period Post-Medieval Material bone Dimensions length: 73.00 mm width: 12.00 mm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:1986.69.119
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

flute
Description

Bone flute with two holesThe 'flute' was examined on 15 November 2005 by one Helen Leaf, a post-graduate student at University College London working on a doctoral thesis dealing with medieval flutes. Helen said the object was not a flute because one of the perforations should be d-shaped (and none of them are) and the object is too short. Helen had no idea what the object was. She also pointed out that it had been cut at both ends by a saw showing that it had been cut by a bone-worker rather than a butcher.
Production period

Post-Medieval
Material

bone
Dimensions

Details