File:A complete Post Medieval bone apple corer or fid, dating from the 17th century. (FindID 980233).jpg
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[edit]| A complete Post Medieval bone apple corer or fid, dating from the 17th century. | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Wyatt, 2019-11-23 11:09:54 |
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A complete Post Medieval bone apple corer or fid, dating from the 17th century. |
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| Description |
English: A complete Post Medieval bone apple corer or fid, dating from the 17th century. The object is formed from a sheep's metapodial which has been carved using a saw. The proximal end of the bone has been sliced in half to form a scoop, leaving the hollow centre of the bone. The upper side of the corer has been decorated with a series of two incised X's or saltire crosses between incised horizontal lines.
Dimensions: length: 97.58mm; width: 25.20mm; thickness of scoop: 11.56mm; weight: 16.80g. Similar apple corers on the database are LON-67F623, <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/197641">LON-C676C1</a>, LON-7207F6and LON-C66F63. A similar bone scoop is illustrated in MacGregor (1985:180 fig.97) with this discussion, "commonly executed with no more than a knife, conforming with the tradition that scoops of this type were made by young men for their sweethearts. This notion is nonetheless difficult to reconcile with the general belief that these scoops were used as an aid to eating apples by those who had lost all their teeth. An alternative suggestion, that they were used for coring apples, is more romantically pleasing than a third tradition, that they were used in taking samples from cheeses to test their ripeness. Since there appears to be a certain amount of evidence to support each of these contentions, it must be assumed that there is some truth in all of them, am that different scoops served different purposes." Another suggestion as to their purpose may be as a tool in basket making. Reference: MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Greater London Authority | ||
| Date | between 1600 and 1700 | ||
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FindIdentifier: 980233 |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1082465 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1082465/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/980233 |
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