MYSTERY OBJECTS

[chinatyke]

Boomerang throwers?

[Stanley]

Throwing sticks were used with spears China not Boomerangs but I know what you mean. Sorry No.
But you are right, they are old.

[Gloria]

Rungs off a ladder?

[Whyperion]

look like a form of running shuttle on a loom to pull thread along, or to tension guy ropes on a tent

[chinatyke]

Are they bone or wood? The holes don't appear to go all the way through but I suppose anything threaded in the hole could come out of the end. Whirring sticks, used by aboriginals. They tied a piece of string on them and whirred them around their head to ward off evil spirits and tourists.

[Stanley]

Sorry, nobody is close yet. Oh, yes, they are wood I think.

[Gloria]

Chair legs or stretchers?

[chinatyke]

Early musical instruments, like xylophone striking plates? I'm still thinking of Australian aborigine people.

[Stanley]

You're all too serious. Try something a little more playful....

[Gloria]

Rounders bat?

[chinatyke]

Are they just sticks that were thrown between players in a circle like we would throw a ball around?

[Stanley]

Getting warmer. The holes in them are important.

[Bodger]

Bones_musical instrument

[Stanley]

Sorry Bodge but no. I think they are wood. Clue, concentrate on sports and pastimes.

[Marilyn]

Cliff climbing spikes...

[Stanley]

Sorry no, but you're getting warm in one respect. Crampons are on the feet....

[Gloria]

Are they for attaching to the bottom of boots for use in snow and icy conditions. Playing ice hockey??

[Tizer]

`Handles' for a skipping rope? The ends of them look more like bone than usual wood, in the photo - the ends have the look of porous material. Or is it some less common wood such as bamboo?

[Whyperion]

Ice skates?

[Stanley]

Gloria got very close but there's the answer. Archaeologists have decided they are 16th century ice skates.
Next one?

[Whyperion]

I hadnt noticed Gloria's answer as such but I presume you need skates to play ice hockey so she should have it.
Were they attached to clogs or just bare feet ? It is less icy in general around England now.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[PanBiker]

Looks like it's a hand tool for pummelling or shaping something, maybe leather-work or it could be used by a tin maker for helping to form sheet metal?

[chinatyke]

A wooden or stone mushroom for inserting in socks when they are darned?

[Stanley]

Sorry no to both. Clue, it's made of glass. The stone-like appearance is due to deterioration of the glass during the time it was below ground. It's that old, another archaeological discovery.