Summary

Straight knife handle of horn from a leather worker's toolbox from Birsay, 8th - 10th century

Accession Number

X.FC 262.17

Other references

Original description

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &c. Tool-box and its contents found in parish of Birsay, Evie, Orkney, in 1885. [FC 262.1-25] Straight knife handle of horn 3.5" x .6 x .4".

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Birsay, Evie and Rendall, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1952

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

J. Henderson Bishop, F.S.A.Scot.

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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