UNKNOWN WHETSTONE

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Cream coloured Fossiliferous LimestonePossible Rubber. Sub-triangular flat stone, smoothed on upper and lower surfaces and along two edges. This object was recovered as a possible miniature axe-head, a function for which the material is unsuitable. However, its flat smoothed form may be the result of either a natural processes - such as erosion in water - or utilisation. It resembles a pumice stone smoother, an item supplied in recent times for cosmetic use as a rubber to remove dead skin; pumice stone inserts were also used in pincushions to sharpen points. Such uses may have been made of this object, but as an unstratified find its date must remain uncertain. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 40-1800.Length: 59.1mm, Width: 35.5mm, Thickness: 10mm, Weight: 27.35gms.