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Description: | Buff Coloured medium compacted Sandstone (non-specialist identification by MF).Whetstone. Tapered hone of square section, carefully shaped and smoothed by use on all four sides, chipped at its narrow end and broken at the other. Either point-sharpening grooves or, more likely, post-depositional damage, occurs on one flat face; one aris also bears damage post-dating use of the object. The rectangular form is common for Roman hones, but continued in use - as perhaps did some of the same hones - into the Anglo-Saxon period. At this later period, large and carefully shaped hones, which this example resembles, were occasionally prestige items in their own right. Suggested date: Roman to Early Medieval, 40-700. Length: 104.82mm, Width: 40mm, Thickness: 40.1mm, Weight: 240gms.
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