Sorry, ignore my last post. 

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Marcel, Daniel
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Subject: Re: Mystery artifact...ID help?

Could it possibly be part of a lace bobbin? (see
http://www.lacemaking.com/images/AntiqueEnglishBobbins.htm for period
examples). Although I've never seen one with a slit like that.
Interesting nonetheless.

Dan Marcel
Staff Archaeologist
MACTEC Engineering & Consulting, Inc. 
1725 Louisville Drive
Knoxville, TN  37921-5904
Contact #: (865) 588-8544, ext. 1143
Fax #: (865) 588-8026 


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Trepal
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:12 AM
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Subject: Mystery artifact...ID help?

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking for a little help identifying an artifact.

The artifact was collected during excavation in a cannon boring mill at
the 1817-1912 West Point Foundry site. It was found in context with late
19th-century tobacco pipe fragments. It has a tapering, cylindrical
cross-section with a grooved collar and a rounded head with a straight,
narrow slit across the top and extending down the sides. the other end
is broken. I am not sure what material it's made from, though it may be
clay, hard and cool to the touch. It looks as though it has been turned
on a lathe, and the grooves are very sharp and straight. The broken end
looks as though it may have been cut rather than simply broken.

Photos:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/danthearcheologist/artifact_ID/00
1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/danthearcheologist/artifact_ID/00
2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/danthearcheologist/artifact_ID/00
3.jpg


Any ideas?

Regards,


Dan

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Daniel J. Trepal
Masters Candidate
Industrial Archaeology
Michigan Technological University
Social Sciences Dept.
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
http://www.social.mtu.edu/IA/iahm.html
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