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Description: | Stone: fine grained compacted SandstoneChopping Board fragment. Flat stone fragment split along natural bedding planes, with straight cut-marks on both its flat surfaces; these are deeper and of V-section on one side, where two cut-marks intersect, and shallower on the other side, where three lightly scored lines run approximately parallel to each other. One edge of the stone is smoothed, and probably shows the original edge of the board; the other edges are broken. Similarly marked stones were recorded from Late Iron Age and Roman occupation at Garton Slack and Wetwang Slack, East Riding of Yorkshire. Here, Roman pottery accompanying this object provides an apt date. Such boards presumably played a role in crafts such as leatherworking, providing a flat cutting surface. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400.Length: 92.8mm, Width: 50mm, Thickness: 14.8mm, Weight: 83.11gms.
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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