Fig. 194.—Rude Bone Spoon found at Clooneygonnel. Two-thirds real size.
Spoons formed of thin cuticular horn are not of unusual occurrence. The specimen represented, [fig. 194], is one of two such articles found in the crannog of Clooneygonnel, and shaped out of the concave epiphyses, or joint surfaces of the vertebræ of some large mammal. A wooden handle had probably been originally attached to it.[157] [Fig. 195], from Ballinderry, is a curious, rudely formed object of bone, perforated with four holes; its use unknown.[158]
Fig. 195.—Spatula-shaped Bone from Ballinderry.
Plate XXXIII.
Miscellaneous Articles found in Crannogs.