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Description: | A rectangular length of lightweight, dark, fine-grained stone that has probably been used as a whetstone (hone or sharpening stone) as there are a number of shallow grooves on three of the surfaces. It is difficult to date with certainty but it probably dates from the Early-Medieval to Medieval periods. It is pierced at one end and a copper-alloy rivet remains in the piercing. At each end of the rivet is a small section of copper-alloy plate, probably forming a suspension mount, most of which has broken away in antiquity and is missing. The opposite end of the stone to the suspension loop has also broken away and is missing. The copper-alloy remnants have a dark green patina. The stone is 83mm long, 12.7mm wide and 10.5mm thick. It weighs 24.2gm. Other examples are located on the PAS database, DENO-FFB311, BH-08D4C2, and BERK-0E2784. Hones of this type were for personal use and were perforated in order to suspend them from a leather belt. Examples are known from Viking York (AY17/14, nos 9329, 9590) from 9th- to 11th-century contexts, but the shape and size continues into the medieval period, with examples illustrated from Winchester (in Biddle 1990, nos 3034, 3035) coming from 14th-century contexts.
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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