Record ID: DEV-8FB235
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two worked and heated fragments of sedimentary rocks of unknown age, dating to c. 1500 BC -AD 1900. The fragments are of irregular shape, although loosely rectilinear. One is a blackened stone with thin lines of strata and a white cortex on the underside whose heated surface has an almost greenish tinge, while the other is a reddish brown tone and markedly smoother. They have been deliberately heated to produce an extremely high shine surface on their dorsal side, which has then been used as a base for cutting as there are multiple deeply incised cut marks on these high shine su…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: DEV-8F8C21
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
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 con…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6E49A1
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone of uncertain date and of a fine, greywacke sandstone. Rectangular in plan and sub-rectangualr in profile, the fragment terminates in worn breaks at either end. Due to abrasion to either face of the stone, in profile the whetstone tapers from 19.3mm wide at one end to 13.7mm at the other, with the narrowing being pronouncedly concave at one end and becoming more gradual below. This is more prominent on one face than the other. Dimensions: length 50.5mm; width 21.8mm; thickness 19.3mm; weight 29.03g. Whetstones were in use from the Bronze Age onwards, and w…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-CE9EE4
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint plano-convex knife, Early Bronze Age. Unifacially knapped flint knife.
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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