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Description: | Medium grained and poorly compacted Sandstone possible rotary quern fragment. Sub-rectangular chip of sandstone with a possibly smoothed and chamfered curving edge at one end. The other end and all sides are flat, and one (top or bottom) face as illustrated bears a single diagonal groove, possibly adventitious damage. The curved end may suggest an origin in the flat top stone of a rotary quern. None of the faces is smoothed so as to suggest use as a hone or rubber - if this was a fragment of a broken quern shaped to form such an object, there is no trace of its use. The use of vaguely suitable grinding and sharpening stones was resorted to in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, though the Viking Age brought contact with sources of more suitable stones which came to dominate the medieval market for whetstones. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850.Length: 96.8mm, Width: 34.9mm, Thickness: 18.8mm, Weight: 120.57gms.
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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