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Description: | A copper alloy countersink tool with a wooden handle. This tool probably dates from the Modern period, perhaps 1800 - 1950. The main body of the auger is made from copper alloy with an iron core at the cutting end. The cutting face is circular with four teeth. The cutting end is bulbous and tapers back along the shaft which is circular in section. The iron is only present in the bulbous area. Just before the tang, the shaft flares again slightly. The tang is square in section. The remains of a wooden handle are also present. This would have been a comfortable shape, circular in section with a thick central part, tapering as it projects outwards, with thicker terminals (like a traditional tap). It has a length 86.33mm, width 16.79mm, thickness 7.42mm, weight 62.48g. Tools are very difficult to date accurately, because they change very little in design. Auger spoon bits are known from London dating from the 16th or 17th century, which have a more rectangular sectioned tang (Egan 2005, page 153), but the quality of the metal and the survival of the wooden handle on this example make a later date much more likely. No close parallel has been found.
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