Dirk, with an antler hilt and a cairngorm set into the top

Two-edged iron handsaw hafted in its original split antler handle, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), late 1st or 2nd century AD

Antler handle, sub-triangular in cross-section, with a socket at one end showing traces of iron oxide, and cut marks possibly made to resemble ogham, from Bac Mhic Connain, North Uist

Composite comb of bone or antler, hog-backed, from Jarlshof, Shetland

Comb from Jarlshof, Shetland

Crossbow nut of antler, part of the trigger mechanism of a crossbow, from Buiston Crannog, Ayrshire, c. 550 - 700 AD

Woven nettle fibre belt decorated with coloured cloth and blue glass beads, carrying seal and sharksin pouches, antler tip and two knives: Sakhalin, Ainu, 19th century

"Pana", man's knife used for dissecting game, made of wood, bone and iron: Inuit, Winter Island, Melville Peninsula

Tora tora or necklace of wood and antler: Asia, South East Asia, Indonesia, Sulawesi, Toraja, 20th century

Composite single-sided comb with a convex top and nine tooth plates, from a Viking grave group from Kneep Head, Valtos, Uig, Isle of Lewis, 900 - 1000

Comb of antler from a female burial in a stone-lined pit grave [5], Westness, Orkney, 850 - 925 AD

Antler comb from oval stone-lined pit grave [2], Westness, Rousay, Orkney

Single sided antler comb in seven fragments decorated with vertical grooves, part of a Viking grave assemblage from Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland

One of 14 conical gaming pieces of bone or antler, part of a Viking grave assemblage from Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland

One of 14 conical gaming pieces of bone or antler, part of a Viking grave assemblage from Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland

One of 14 conical gaming pieces of bone or antler, part of a Viking grave assemblage from Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland