Fire Starting Block

55.82.23

Information

Wooden tinder block with six drilled holes and charred by fire. The object would have been used with a bow drill and tinder to light fires. Marked in ink by the excavator with the number of the tomb, 755. On the top is stuck a rectangular sticker with the number 476 (Institute of Archaeology collection number). CONDITION NOTE (1998): Dry and splitting in places, surface dirt, adhesive on surface, label adhered to surface.