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Thesaurus Term/Concept: ICE SKATE
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Identifier
95461
Class
MDA OBJECT TYPE
Status
Preferred
Index?
Yes
Scope Note
A blade attached to a shoe to glide on ice. It can be made of bone, and examples are known from at least as early as the Bronze Age. Metal blades have progressively replaced bone skates since the sixteenth century.
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FSF41623: ICE SKATE (IPS: Early Late Saxon to 13th century - 900 AD to 1200 AD)
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FSF21060: ICE SKATE (Late Saxon - 850 AD to 1065 AD)
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FSF36532: ICE SKATE (Late Saxon - 850 AD to 1065 AD)
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FSF616: ICE SKATE (Late Saxon - 850 AD? to 1065 AD?)
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FSF4346: ICE SKATE (Saxon - 410 AD? to 1065 AD?)