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From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-108).;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) -- Whetstones from the Portland Group (Upper Jurassic) -- Whetstones 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.
From the Publisher
The five-hundred year occupation of Insula IX at Silchester has yielded a sequence of 87 whetstones, mostly tabular but some bar- or rod-shaped. These are described, illustrated and characterized with the help of thin-section microscopic petrography.