Decorated equipment: symbols of power, status or belief?

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Perforated baton with sculpted twist shaft

Laugerie Basse, Dordogne, France
Antler
Length: 24.6 cms
The British Museum
Palart.205

Perforated baton with sculpted twist shaft

La Madeleine, Dordogne France
Antler
Length: 30.6 cms
The British Museum
Palart.311

Perforated baton fragment with low relief of galloping horse

La Madeleine, Dordogne France
Antler
Length: 16.6 cms
The British Museum
Palart.310

Baton with frieze of engraved ibex drawings

Duruthy, Landes, France
Antler
Length: 15.3 cms
Musée archéologique d’Arthous, Hastingues
MA950904 79.1.3

Baton with engraved reindeer and horses

La Madeleine, Dordogne France
Antler
Length: 26.3 cms
The British Museum
Palart.306

Perforated baton with reiner

El Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Cantabria
Antler
Length: 24.6 cms
Museo de bellas Artes de Santander
1709

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