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Bone prickle-toole with animal head.
10th-11th cc.

Such prickle-tools could be used for piercing holes or for writing on birch-bark or on wax tablet.

Taken from:
Excavations on Vladychny Dvor (Bishop's yard) in Novgorod kremlin.

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(Soros Foundation),1999