Object: Awl
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1886 No. 1456,Transferred from University Museum, 1886
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Yarnton,23 March 1876
Parish: Yarnton
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1876
Length (mm): 30
Weight (g): 39
Associations: Found with chipped flint flake by left-hand of contracted skeleton, 3 feet deep.
Description: Diameter 2.5mm
Publications: G. Rollerton, Scientific papers and addresses, ii, 943
Remarks: It has been suggested that this was a tatooing needle.