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C. T. C. DOBBS AND R. A. PRICE:THE KENNEMERLAND SITE, AN INTERIM REPORT
(Bax & Martin, 1974: 86). These collars were used to increase an iron weight to the correct amount. The Roman numerals denote the number of pounds of ‘Trooise weight’, (Zevenboom & Konig, 1953: 153); the two holes show where an iron ring was located. Beside the numerals are the outlines of the stamps used by the gaugers (ibid.; Zevenboom, 1953). A further example of these collars is K19, (Price & Muckelroy, 1977: 207, Fig. 21), the collar for a one pound weight.
87-K-74 Ingot no. 305, weighing approxi- mately 140kg, was relocated and raised in 1987 from its position off Stoura stack (Price et al., 1980: Fig. 14). Closer inspection now shows that it had an RI stamp in addition to the MR stamp reported previously and measured 785 x 290 mm. This now places the ingot in the cluster with ingot no. 104 on the dendrogram (ibid: Fig. 13) rather than with ingots 4 1 and 64. Unfortunately this ingot was stolen from the premises of the Shetland Museum, before it could be accurately weighed.
N . Navigational and scientific instruments
84-K-44 Dividers (Site J, 2.6/25.0).
84-K-113 Dividers, fragment consisting of the hinged part only. (Site A, 3.5/36).
87-K-1 Dividers (Site J, 4.22/24.8). The above three examples are all of the same type (Fig. 13), and differ from the bow dividers found close-by in 1973 (Price & Muckelroy, 1974: Fig. 7).
R. Organic material
Plumstones. Sixty-eight complete plumstones and 13 fragments were found in concretions from the 1984 season. They have been ident- ified as Prunus instititia by James Greig at the School of Biology at the University of Birmingham. This is a wild plum like a cherry plum or bullace. Similar plums have been found in the remains of the early Dutch en- campment in the Arctic at Smeerenburg (Wijngarden-Bakker et al., 1981). They were often used in meat stews to liven up the diet. The concretions were excavated in the
museum and many of the plumstones were found associated with fragments of glass. Five stones were found inside a broken green glass case bottle and its pewter top. This strongly suggests that the plums were stored in the bottle and contrasts with the 1973 find of peach stones in a stoneware flagon (Price & Muckelroy, 1974 266).
Other organic material. Other items found in concretion included: a peppercorn; four whole and 10 fragments of peas; five pine needles.
V . Stone objects
87-K-24 Quernstone (Site J: 1.7/20.1). Three fragments comprise 85% of the whole arte- fact. Average diameter is 300mm, making this a small example compared with the stone found in 1971 which was 660mm diameterx 120mmthick(Price&Muckelroy, 1974: 263). The circumference is irregular in thickness, varying from 22 mm t o 8 1 mm. The eye of the stone is 74 x 70 mm and on either side are two slots with pewter linings to bear on the axle (Fig. 14). It is made from basalt, probably from the Eifel area of the middle Rhineland.
The Kennemerlandgolf clubs
Discovery of the clubs
During investigations on the site in 1978, five unidentified objects were located and excavated by the team. Four of the objects (Fig. 7) were found within a radius of 2 m. This is very close together considering that the wreckage as a whole is spread over a distance of more than half a kilometre. They could not be identified at the time, although a photograph of them was pub- lished in the hope that an identification would be forthcoming (Price & Muckelroy, 1979, fig. 6).
Ident@cation and description
The objects were finally identified during the 1984 season by Ian Tait of the Shetland Museum, who noted their similarity to the clubs recovered from a 17th-century context in Amsterdam (Opgravingen in Amsterdam 1977: 457-9).[’1 His identification was later confirmed
by the British expert on golf, David Stirk (pers. comm.).
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