The Portable Antiquities Scheme
MODERN PENCIL
1850
SlatePencil fragment. Fragment of a rod of purple-grey slate, rounded by use at one broken end; the other end (now lost) would often be flattened to serve as an eraser. Like the related drawing slate, this would be a familiar part of later 19th-century schoolroom equipment. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1920.
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