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Description: | An iron tool which may be a chisel or pick. It has a head which is circular in section but the top is not flattened as would be expected from hammer blows. The end may be an ancient break. There are shoulders below the head where the tool changes to a rectangular section and starts to taper to a wide point. This end is also irregular and looks likely to be an old break. One face of the tapered end is very rough and there is a step at the top suggesting that the original surface may have flaked off. The tool is 69mm long, 33.3mm wide and 30.2mm thick. The blade is 32.2mm wide at the tapered end, and is 3.8mm thick. The object bears some similarities to Roman mason's picks from the Catalogue of Romano-British Ironwork in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne by Manning (1976), but it looks like the broken end of a pick, except that it has definitely shaped shoulders, which suggest that the tool was not much bigger than it is currently. It thus seems more likely to be post-medieval in date, though it still seems uncomfortably short for a tool that had to be hit.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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