Please reply to Adam Daubney
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' The object is a stone 'head', oval in plan and
in cross-section, with prominant circular eyes and lips. The object was
brought in by a chap who lives in Lincolnshire. He used to live in France where
he found it in a 'cave/cellar' beneath his house. He says that it was found
along with 'bows and arrows', some of which had feathers on them. Apparently the
bows and arrows were in really poor condition and eventually
disintegrated.
It sounds to
me as if the previous owner of the house had left a pile of ethnographic
material behind. I'm no expert, but I wonder if it is French
Polynesian?
The stone is
very weathered, and is of a reddish/brown porus structure with frequent
'fault-lines' running through it. '
Adam Daubney
Finds Liaison Officer,
Lincolnshire
The Portable Antiquities
Scheme
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