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Description: | A stone whetstone which is 56.6mm long, 14.5mm wide and 7.8mm thick. The stone is rectangular in section and is wider at one end. The narrower end may be an old break. There is a circular perforation in the wider end which appreas to have been drilled from one side. The stone is a very fine-grained purple-brown stone with small particles of mica (possibly a sort of metamorphosed slate?) which is quite soft; it can be marked with a fingernail.The date of this object is uncertain. Whetstones are known from the Roman period onwards, and without decoration or context are very hard to date specifically. A medieval or post medieval date seems most likely for this example as it is very similar to DENO-560207 on the database and to examples in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue (ed. Saunders and Saunders, 1991) on page 178.
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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