Bone tool.

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Mesolithic bone tool

Field collection: Mesolithic Morton excavation,Tayport, Fife
Collected by Dr John Coles

Donated by Mr GC Sim
Museum number 1976-897

Spatula-form bone tool from shaft of a long bone (metatarsus or metacarpal) of a large herbivore, probably red deer (cervus elephus) or wild auroch (bos primigenius). At Morton tools made from deer bones were worn smooth on one end.