Burnt City "ruler" looks more like the fragments of a modern comb.
Burnt City ''ruler'' looks more like the fragments of a modern comb.
That's what I thought--makes me curious at the situ where it was discovered & how they arrived at deciding it was a 'ruler'. I can see it as some sort of 'spacer' or jig, which would make it a 'ruler' in the nominal sense of the word. That said, as a frustrated sometimes woodbutcher, the craftsman who made it has my respect.