Wooden artefacts use-wear

This chapter presents a small study of wooden tool- use complementary to the detailed discussion of wooden artefacts presented in Chapter 13 (this vol- ume). The analysis presented here is focused on four wooden processing tools and a single wooden peg from the Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement with the objective of determining the possible function of the tools and contextualizing the results. Whilst some of the selected objects were clearly utilitarian, others were more ambiguous in purpose. Key aims were (a) to confirm the identification of these objects as tools, (b) to seek out evidence of how they were used specifically. The results provide an indication of the function of some objects and have the advantage of presenting analyses conducted prior to conservation of the arte- facts, which can affect the preservation of microscopic surface features (López-Bultó et al. 2012). It is hoped, in future, to re-scan the conserved objects to evaluate the importance of pre-conservation recording of use-wear.