Description

Summary: Bone needle from a rib bone. Broken at perforation, tapered. Three decorative grooves on one side. Slightly polished on both sides. The pointed end is not sharp enough to be used as a needle for textiles but it is conceivable that it could have been used for weaving/netting. Dating uncertain. From fieldwork undertaken by the WANHS Archaeology Field Group at Godwin's Meadow, Rodbourne, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 2006 and 2009. A site of multiple occupation, stretching from the 10th to the 18th century, but the most intensive periods of activity extended from the latter years of the Saxon-Norman period and continued through to the end of the High Medieval period (10th-14th centuries). A complex area of earthworks which indicated that structures, enclosures, banks and ditches once existed in this area.