Record ID: SOM-FFB2D5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable whetstone fragment which is likely to be of Roman to post-medieval date. The unbroken surfaces exhibit some polish and the only original edge is at a ninety degree angle. The stone is a fine-grained micaceous sandstone (pers. comm. Dennis Parsons, Curator of Natural History, Somerset County Museum). Dimensions: 51mm by 44.8mm by 20.3mm Weight: 42.8g
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mells', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3DEB66
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a whetstone, which could be Roman or later in date. This fragment is rectnagular in shape with one terminal end surviving, with rounded corners. There is a circular, possibly suspension hole through this temrinal end. The stone is hard grey, dense and has tiny specks of silver mica throughout. It measures 35.01mm in surviving length and 21.17mm in width it is 8.55mm in thickness. The hole is 4.75mm in diameter.
Created on: Friday 21st September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7E18A7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable whetstone which could be Roman or later in date. Both terminals are incomplete due to old breaks. It is rectangular in plan but tapering in thickness towards one end. The wider end has a circular hole through it. The stone is dense and grey in colour. It measures 38.38mm in length, 14.22mm in width and 11.21mm in thickness.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-6D7F95
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a flat oval polishing stone or whetstone of probable Roman to Post Medieval date. It measures 67.1mm by 65.8mm by 35.5mm and weighs 204g. The base is polished flat and very smooth in the centre, rougher at the edges. The sides are rounded and the top is rough and slightly concave. The stone appears to be a fine grained igneous or metamorphic rock with narrow quartz veins. It is mid grey in the centre with a mid brown weathered outer surface.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-42FE74Z
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of undatable (200 BC-1800 AD) but probably Roman hone or whetstone, measuring 48.37x37.89x20.74mm and weighing 63.8g. The stone is smooth on one face and rougher on the others. It is red/ brown in colour with micaceous inclusions. The whetstone or hone is formed from a very fine grained sedimentary, mica rich sandstone or siltstone.
Created on: Monday 19th July 2010
Last updated: Saturday 17th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0D0EB3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat cylindrical polishing stone or whetstone of probable Roman to post-medieval date. It measures 72mm by 68mm by 36mm and weighs 253g. Both of the flat sides exhibit polish. The stone appears to be an igneous rock and is not of local origin (pers. comm. Dennis Parsons, Curator of Natural History, Somerset County Museum).
Created on: Monday 31st March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-C88526
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sandstone whetstone, used on two sides and one face, so that they are smooth, and broken at one end. Romano-British, judging from the majority of material that it was found with. Carlyon (1987) illustrates a similar example from Carvossa, Probus on page 137, Fig.14, No.4, which is dated from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Quinnell (2004) illustrates a similar example from Trethurgy on page 141, Fig.67, No.18, which is dated from c.AD 150-550.
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-974E15
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone, narrowed at the top, expanding gradually in one plane to form a bulbous terminal. Pierced for suspension at the top - drilled from both sides, minimum internal diameter 3.8mm. Concave wear at the edge of one side close to the piercing - width of wear up to 45mm. Fine grained ?sandstone, mica-rich, the stone is light orange-brown where freshly scratched, and darker grey-brown weathered surface. Length 131.2mm, width at top (level with piercing) 20.4mm, width at end 45.2mm, min thickness (at top) 9.3mm, max thickness (at end) 17.0mm, weight 115.8g. Uncertain date - Roma…
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-560207
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone. Very fine-grained purple-brown stone (possibly a sort of metamorphosed slate?). Trapezoidal in plan (tapering towards one end) with bevelled terminals, rectangular sectioned, perforated for suspension towards the wider terminal. Wear along the lower half of the narrower sides. File marks on the bevelled faces of the terminals. The perforation has been bored from both sides. Uncertain date - probably medieval or post medieval. Length 105.42mm, maximum width (perforated end) 14.7mm, minimum width (distal end) 8.3mm, thickness 9.0-9.7mm, diameter of perforation c.4.3mm, weight 32.93g.
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chelmorton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-3303E1
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman to Medieval pendant whetstone. The stone is rectangular in plan and square in cross-section. At one end it is perforated by a circular hole to secure it via a thong or suspension ring to a strap or belt. The material is brown to grey in colour and is possibly a finegrained sandstone or even a form of Schist. The faces are marked with scored lines as the scars of use. Manning (1995 :261-262) notes that whetstones are very common on Roman sites, especially military ones. Likewise it is known that Vikings wore pendant whetstones from the belt. Shopland N. A…
Created on: Saturday 9th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Letcombe Regis', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP3346
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
3 x whetstone fragments. Hard, pink/grey micaceous stone.
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: HAMP3441
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
1 x whetstone fragment. Oval-sectioned, quite worn.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HAMPSHIRE UPHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C6BF94
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a complete whetstone of unknown date. It is a light grey stone with a little mica, rectangular in shape with a flattened oval cross-section at the terminals, which are both flat. There are two flat, rectangular areas, each with significant patches of wear, one near each terminal. They have been worked so as to create an angle of 45 degrees between them, resulting in an uworked central bulbous area. The whetstone measures 86.86mm in length and is 20.6mm wide. It varies in thickness between 11.34mm on the worn areas to 17.1mm in the centre. It weighs 50.77g. Whetstones were in use throug…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shotley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-969DE0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of whetstone, smooth and used on all surfaces including several deep grooves for pins. The stone is orange in colour with yellow diagonal striations across it. Measures 59.6x38.3x(max)35.7mm. Weighs 93.84g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-BA9D42
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of broken sandstone whetstone found in association with early Roman pottery and possibly dating to that period (c. AD 50-250). The whetstone is approximately square in cross-section, although it widens at one end to accomodate a perforation by which it could have been suspended. It is broken at a length of 41mm. It is 13.9mm wide, 11.4mm thick, and weighs 11.1g.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-568781
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Trapezoid-shaped piece of stone with a flattish cross-section. Probably a whetstone.
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: BERK-799470
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bracknell Forest
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two whetstones of possible Roman to Medieval date. One is rectangular and has been fashioned from a very fine-grained sandstone with mica inclusions. Dimensions: length 85mm; thickness 20mm (approx); weight 99.33g The second is flattened and sub-rounded pebble, possibly ironstone. Length 67mm; width 45mm; thickness 17mm; weight 141.49g
Created on: Monday 7th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-2CB314
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An oblong, slightly waisted, whetstone with an eccentric circular hole drilled in one end. The stone is a very fine-grained rock with a distinct greenish hue.
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-13DF16
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or Medieval whetstone (orange-reddish sandstone)
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: WILT-4AF932
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of whetstone measuring 40x36x10mm and weighing 25.31g. It has numerous long marks on the surface. Roman to medieval in date.
Created on: Friday 11th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.