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I think this could be a calf-weaner (everyone keep your lecherous
sniggers in check). It looks a little bent and out of shape, not
surprising if it is 250 year old, but you would have put the round part
around a calf's nose with the spikes sticking out. It prevents them
from nursing by poking the mother when they try to suckle. These were
not uncommon implements on a farm, and I have come across a few in my
work in Texas. This looks a little different from the ones I have seen,
but I think people devised a wide variety of apparatuses to wean calves.
Rachel Feit
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
King, Julia
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:17 PM
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Subject: Artifact ID
Dear HistArchers,
One of our students, Andreas Lutz, is in an Archaeology Practicum class
at St. Mary's College where he along with his colleagues is cataloging,
analyzing, and interpreting materials from the Addison Plantation site
(18PR175; aka Oxon Hill) located in Prince George's County, MD. He has
come across several iron artifacts, and links to images of one of these
objects are posted below. Andreas has shown these to archaeologists at
various institutions around the region, with some tentative -- but still
unsatisfying -- identifications. The context is cellar fill believed to
date to c. 1730s. Later disturbance is possible but not likely. I told
Andreas about the "hundreds of years of experience" represented by
HISTARCH; colleagues, if you have suggestions for Andreas, we would both
be grateful for your assistance! Here are the links:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifacts
/18PR17503.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifacts
/18PR17501.jpg
Julie King
St. Mary's College of MD
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