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Description: | A flattish D shaped limestone object with one flat and one convex face. A 5mm diameter hole has been drilled through 15mm in from the curved edge. All the surfaces are roughly finished. A number of perforated and grooved stone weights were found in the river Ouse in north Buckinghamshire. These were considered (Mynard 1979) to be the sinkers for fish or eel baskets and the hole allowed the weight to be tied to the bottom of the basket. Because of the way these weights were found, their dating remains problematic but documentary evidence of fishing in the area suggests that they could have been in use in the medieval period. There is also the possibility that these perforated stones were used for other agricultural or domestic purposes. They could have weighted the nets on hey-ricks for instance. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jennifer Moss | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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