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Unique ID: DEV-8F8C21
Object type certainty: Certain
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A whetstone formed from a sedimentary rock, possibly greywacke, of unknown age, dating to c. 1500 BC -AD 1900.
The whetstone is trapezoidal in shape and rectangular in section. It has a deep area of wear where it has been used for sharpening tools, which is discoloured and dark compared to the surrounding mid grey coloured stone. The wear has created a ridge where the objects being sharpened were brought backwards along the wear surface.
While a medieval to post medieval date is posited, examples from Cornwall recorded with the PAS (e.g. CORN-0EE8C3) have been found in contexts dating to the Bronze Age. Jones and Taylor (2010) illustrate similar sedimentary rock whetstones and a gabbroic greenstone pestle on page 129, fig. 66, nos. SF505, SF703 and SF622 which were excavated from Bronze Age contexts at Scarcewater, Cornwall, radio-carbon dated from c.1000-830 BC.
Measurements: 158mm length, 91.9mm width, 31mm thickness
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 1800 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Quantity: 1
Length: 158 mm
Width: 91.9 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 2021 - Saturday 2nd October 2021
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Other reference: SCC Receipt 019667
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SS7721
Four figure Latitude: 50.97523766
Four figure longitude: -3.75334199
1:25K map: SS7721
1:10K map: SS72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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