Production waste of beads for rosaries (ca. 1400-1500)
Description
Production waste of rosary beads. From these strips of bone material, sawn from the metatarsal bone (metatarsus) of a cow, beads are drilled for making rosaries.
The waste came during an excavation on the Barracks Square (1997) emerged from a filled-in ditch with waste from the 15de century. This indicates that during this period a so-called 'fifty-maker' who was active rosaries produced. Similar finds are known from 's-Hertogenbosch, among other places.
Making rosary beads.
Details
| Description: | Production waste from the making of rosary beads. |
| Material: | Bone, perforated strips sawn from the metatarsal bone (metatarsus) of a cow. |
| Production: | The Netherlands |
| Dating: | ca. 1400-1500 |
| Dimensions: | diameter drill holes 7-8-10 mm. |
| Location: | Gorinchem, Barracks Square (1997) |
| Inventory number: | KP97V144 |
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Takes place
| Archis number(s): | Case identification: 2020660100 Research notification: 1626 |
| Topographic Map: | 38G |
| Coordinates: | 126.280/426.860 (center) |
| Toponym: | Barracks Square |
| City: | Gorinchem |
| Local authority: | Gorinchem |
| Province: | Zuid-Holland |
| Type of research: | Archaeological excavation |
| Executor: | PM Floore, Rotterdam |
| Project Manager: | PM Floore, Rotterdam |
| Client: | Municipality of Gorinchem |
| Competent authority: | National Service for Archaeological Heritage |
| Start of investigation: | August 11-September 5, 1997 |
| Finds & documentation: | Municipal depot for archaeology Gorinchem |
| IN: | - |
Documentation
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Broeken, A. (2006) Drossaard squire Jacob van Paffenrode and his house on the Kazerneplein, in: Gorcumse grondschatten. Archeological quest for the history of the Arkelstad, Gorcum Monument Series 5, Gorinchem, p. 32-39. flipbook | PDF (3 MB) |
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Busch, A.J. & C.S. Oldenburger-Ebbers (1990) Pleasure gardens in Gorinchem, Historical Series Oud-Gorcum 3, Gorinchem, p. 3-8. flipbook | PDF (9 MB) |
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Floore, PM (1998) Excavation of the House of Paffenrode, Kazerneplein, Gorinchem 1997, Rotterdam. flipbook | PDF (6,10 MB) |
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Janssen, H.L. (1983) Edited bone in: From Forest to City, Excavations in 's-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch, p. 295-296. WorldCat |
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Jong, Th. de (1998) Animals on the square. Excavated animal remains from the Kazerneplein in Gorinchem, ArcheoService Report No. 7, Eindhoven, p. 30. flipbook | PDF (2,23 MB) |
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Spitzers, TA (2013) Die Konstanzer Paternosterleisten. Analyze the Technology and Wirtschaft in the Spatial Changes in Handicrafts of the Knochenperlenbohrer, in: Fund message from Baden-Württemberg 33, Stuttgart, p. 913, 926. WorldCat | flipbook | PDF (19 MB) |
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Vilsteren, VT van (1987) The Bone Age, Bone, Antler, Horn and Ivory Artifacts 10.000 Years Ago to the Present, Assen, p. 60-62. WorldCat | flipbook | PDF (7 MB) |
| Material: | Bone material |
| Period: | Middle Ages late B: 1250-1500 AD |
| Application: | Religion |
| Location: | Kazerneplein (1997) |
