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<p>[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 2886838, member: 1331"]Couple of developments. First a powerful magnet just sticks to it and it looks like a few spots that have a rusty appearance so not quite sure what to make of the composition. Second - after cleaning out the mud from a wasps nest I realised there was a nail still attached to the head and a second broken off. The purists will probably say I could have used the grains of mud to thermoluminescence date it but the provenance of this is long gone and I'm not rich enough to afford the testing. The top bit is a weird construction but I suspect there were short bits of carved wood in between and several attempts to keep it all together. This was either a two handed phurba/kila or something "Dwayne the rock" held in a movie.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]285146[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]285147[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]285148[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 2886838, member: 1331"]Couple of developments. First a powerful magnet just sticks to it and it looks like a few spots that have a rusty appearance so not quite sure what to make of the composition. Second - after cleaning out the mud from a wasps nest I realised there was a nail still attached to the head and a second broken off. The purists will probably say I could have used the grains of mud to thermoluminescence date it but the provenance of this is long gone and I'm not rich enough to afford the testing. The top bit is a weird construction but I suspect there were short bits of carved wood in between and several attempts to keep it all together. This was either a two handed phurba/kila or something "Dwayne the rock" held in a movie.:) [ATTACH=full]285146[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]285147[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]285148[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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