Flute
Many fragments of medieval bone flutes have been excavated in Exeter. This one, shown second from right in the photograph, is made from a bird’s ulna. It originally had three finger-holes and remains of the voicing notch near the mouthpiece.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/B2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- bone (animal)
- Common Name
- flute
- Simple Name
- flute
- Period Classification
- Medieval (1200-1500)
- Production Year Low
- 1100
- Production Year High
- 1199
