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Early Medieval stone sharpening stone
This flat stone has a surface covered in many, near parallel, sharpening grooves. One ege has broken roughly, the opposite edge is straight and neat. It appears to have been used as a slipstone for sharpening blades or the points of fine tools.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
2017.4H/2.42
Find Information
Site Name: St. Patrick's Chapel, Whitesands Bay
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 2021
Notes: Excavations were conducted in May 2014 and May 2015
Acquisition
donation, 16/5/2017
Measurements
height / mm:65.7
maximum width / mm:108.8
width / mm
depth / mm:15.9
Material
Stone
Location
In store
Classification
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