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Description: | Probably a cosmetic mortar or woad grinder made from wrought iron. It is plain, with a suspension loop/hook on either side of the hollowed-out body. It should be added, however, that although it looks very similar to a Roman woad grinder, it is of convex shape and not concave which would be very unusual and impractical for an object such as a mortar. Also, wrought iron would be an unusual material for a cosmetic mortar or woad grinder. Consequently, it might be more likely that it is, in fact, a handle of some description dating from the Roman-Post Medieval period. | 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: | 200
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dot Boughton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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