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Lithic Implement; polisher
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, 2010-06-17 15:17:09
Title
Lithic Implement; polisher
Description
English: A chert pebble that has been broken and used as a polishing stone or burnisher. The back of the stone is fractured. The front is the working face and has been polished to a perfectly flat surface. The sides are rounded and are probably water worn; the original sides of the pebble. The tool is 85.5mm long, 58.3mm wide and 31.1mm thick. It weighs 191.9g. The stone is light grey in colour.

Some similar stones have been recorded on the PAS database. NARC-5F4FD3 was interpreted as a linen smoother. SUSS-BC6602 suggested that it may have been used for grinding sand on skins to clean them for e.g. making vellum parchment. NMGW-12F201 was suggested to be a burnishing tool.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to date these artefacts as all these activities were carried out from Prehistoric times throughout history. If the finds are not recovered from within a sealed archaeological context or do not display diagnostic features they are very difficult to date. Furthermore, other finds from this parish have included Preshistoric, Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval objects.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Doncaster
Date between 20000 BC and 1900
Accession number
FindID: 394290
Old ref: SWYOR-A28F22
Filename: PAS_1142_polisher.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/285650
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/285650/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/394290
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 19 November 2020)
Object location53° 38′ 43.08″ N, 1° 01′ 42.6″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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