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Whetstones from Roman Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), North Hampshire : character, manufacture, provenance and use : 'putting an edge on it' / J. R. L. Allen.
LIBRA DA147.S54 A46 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, John R. L., author.
- Series:
- BAR British series ; 597.
- BAR British series ; 597
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whetstones--England--Silchester.
- Whetstones.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Silchester (England)--Antiquities, Roman.
- Silchester (England).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Silchester.
- England--Silchester.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 118 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014.
- Contents:
- Abstract
- Sharpening stones
- Typology, description, manufacture
- Whetstones from the brownstones (Lower Devonian)
- Whetstones of upper old red sandstone (Upper Devonian)
- Whetstones of pennant sandstone (Late Upper Carboniferous)
- Whetstone from the Portland Group (Upper Jurassic)
- Whetstone from the Weald clay formation (Early Lower Cretaceous)
- Whetstones of greensand (Lower Cretaceous)
- Whetstones of sarsen (Cenozoic)
- Whetstones of ironstone (Cenozoic)
- Whetstones from miscellaneous geological sources
- Whetstones from other sites at Silchester
- Whetstone supply and use at Insula IX
- References
- Appendix 1. Gazeteer of whetstones from published Roman sites in southern Britain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-108).
- ISBN:
- 9781407312804
- 1407312804
- OCLC:
- 883898174
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