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Unknown whetstone fragment
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Somerset County Council, Wil Partridge, 2017-04-10 12:22:10
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Unknown whetstone fragment
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One end of a whetstone made of well cemented and sorted medium grain sandstone. The whetstone is sub-square to D-shaped in section with rounded corners, particularly two adjacent corners, and a bar shape with irregular broken ends. The more rounded corners are probably from use. It is 38.7mm long, and a maximum of 26.7mm by 24.1mm; it weighs 37.0 grams.

It is not a local rock but maybe Devonian (D. Parsons pers comm) and traded fairly locally. Whetstones are known to have been used from the Bronze Age onwards and continued to be used for scythes and other tools into the 20th century. A Roman, Medieval or Post Medieval date would be in keeping with surrounded material.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 43 and 1800
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FindID: 840563
Old ref: SOM-22CE2A
Filename: som22ce2a.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/610705
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/610705/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/840563
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