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Description: | Whetstone. Very fine-grained purple-brown stone (possibly a sort of metamorphosed slate?). Trapezoidal in plan (tapering towards one end) with bevelled terminals, rectangular sectioned, perforated for suspension towards the wider terminal. Wear along the lower half of the narrower sides. File marks on the bevelled faces of the terminals. The perforation has been bored from both sides. Uncertain date - probably medieval or post medieval. Length 105.42mm, maximum width (perforated end) 14.7mm, minimum width (distal end) 8.3mm, thickness 9.0-9.7mm, diameter of perforation c.4.3mm, weight 32.93g. | 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: | 50
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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