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Description: | a complete whetstone of unknown date. It is a light grey stone with a little mica, rectangular in shape with a flattened oval cross-section at the terminals, which are both flat. There are two flat, rectangular areas, each with significant patches of wear, one near each terminal. They have been worked so as to create an angle of 45 degrees between them, resulting in an uworked central bulbous area. The whetstone measures 86.86mm in length and is 20.6mm wide. It varies in thickness between 11.34mm on the worn areas to 17.1mm in the centre. It weighs 50.77g. Whetstones were in use throughout Roman and later periods, and it is not possible to date a random find. However, similar examples (without the twist) from medieval Norwich have occurred in eleventh to thirteenth century contexts. This whetstone was discovered within dredged material from the River Orwell, in which several rim sherds of Thetford type ware, dating to the tenth to twelfth centuries, were also found.(SLY SF-C518B6) | 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: | 43
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jane Carr | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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