The Bar Hill Comb will be housed at the Cambridgeshire Archaeology Archive, the "main repository for material found as part of archeological fieldwork in the county," said the BBC.

“The Bar Hill Comb may have been a highly symbolic and powerful object for members of the local community,” said MOLA Find’s specialist Michael Marshall in a statement.

The comb was unearthed at Bar Hill, 4 miles northwest of Cambridge. The comb was among 280,000 items of interest collected between 2016 and 2018 during the A14 improvement scheme.

Dubbing the object the “Bar Hill comb,” archaeologists believe the discovery could illuminate the local customs of Iron Age humans. Only two other human bone combs have ever been found in ...

Dubbed the Bar Hill Comb, the piece is one of 280,000 artifacts from the museum included in an ongoing analysis. Researchers can only theorize the true purpose of the item.

An "incredibly rare" ancient comb made from human skull has been identified among thousands of artefacts recovered during archaeological excavations. The accessory, dubbed the Bar Hill Comb, was ...

The ancient bone comb, “dating from the Iron Age (750 BC – 43 AD), was found at Bar Hill, four miles (6.4km) northwest of Cambridge,” said the BBC. The comb was among 280,000 items collected ...

Researchers identified the comb while analyzing some 280,000 artifacts that had been excavated from an archaeological site at Bar Hill, a village four miles north of Cambridge, between 2016 and 2018.

"The Bar Hill Comb may have been a highly symbolic and powerful object for members of the local community," Michael Marshall, a prehistoric and Roman finds specialist at MOLA said in a statement.

A 2,000-year-old hair comb discovered in a museum’s collection was carved from a human skull.