|
Date: |
|
Description: | Incomplete whetstone worked from a bladed beach pebble of silty sandstone that has trimmed and faceted ends and a faceted edge on both sides (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm). The whetstone is sub-rectangular in plan, with two rounded ends and straight sides. There are percussion marks and damage at both ends and a large chip missing from one edge. There are also many grooves cut into the surface, perhaps by the plough, though there are three incised chevrons in a herring-bone pattern on one face, which may be deliberate. Both faces are flat and worn where they were used for sharpening and polishing metal. There are Devonian (Portscatho Formation) sandstones, potentially suitable for whetstones, on the coast between Loe Pool and Polurrian Cove in the northwest of the Lizard Peninsula. These extend along the Helford River to Mawnan and Rosemullion to the north of the findspot (Roger Taylor pers comm).Christie (CAJ 27, 1988) illustrates similar worked pebble tools on pages 46 & 128, Figs.14 & 77, Nos.L19 & L74, excavated from a Bronze Age barrow cemetery on Davidstow Moor, Cornwall, which date from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age, c.2100-1500 BC.Jones & Taylor (2010) illustrate similar whetstones on page 129, Fig.66, Nos.505 & 703, excavated from Late Bronze Age contexts at Scarcewater, Cornwall, radio-carbon dated to c.1000- 830 BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
WHETSTONE
Incomplete whetstone worked from a…
-
MULLER
Stone muller or rubber, oval…
-
MULLER
Incomplete muller or rubbing stone…
-
PESTLE
Small fine-grained granite pestle, cylindrical…
-
MULLER
Fine-grained granite elvan or rhyolite…
-
-
MULLER
Fragment of a stone muller…
-
MULLER
Stone muller or rubber, oval…
-
-
|