File:Undated polishing stone (FindID 216175).jpg

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Undated polishing stone
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Sussex Archaeological Society, Laura Burnett, 2008-04-21 10:25:10
Title
Undated polishing stone
Description
English: Utilised chert beach pebble. The stone is oval and domed with a flat base; about one quarter is missing from one side from a rough fracture. It is light creamy grey in colour with red iron staining. It is 92.3mm long, 79.4mm wide, 30.1mm thick and weighs 276grams. The base of the stone is flat and polished smooth and is covered in very small impact circles where it has been hit against something, this may have happened at the same time as the polishing or later. A similar stone has been recorded on the database (NARC-5F4FD3) and was interpreted as linen smoother. However the amount of polish on the base of this stone and the small impact fractures may suggest it was used with a rougher material, perhaps grinding sand on skins to clean them for e.g. making vellum parchment. As cleaning and preparing skins is an activity carried out since at least the Paleolithic period it is impossible to date this find with any certainty.
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Sussex
Date Unknown date
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FindID: 216175
Old ref: SUSS-BC6602
Filename: DSCN0982.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/172160
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/172160/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216175
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 1 December 2020)
Object location50° 56′ 32.64″ N, 0° 40′ 43.41″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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