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A Whetstone of Wealden Sandstone from the Roman Villa at Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

J.R.L. Allen
J.R.L. Allen*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Readingj.r.l.allen@reading.ac.uk
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Abstract

Excavated in 1992–4, the villa yielded a portion of a whetstone which, on the basis of general shape, the presence of rebated long edges and microscopic petrography in thin-section, was with little doubt made from a sandstone in the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the north-west Weald. It is representative of a widely recorded, major stone-based industry in Roman Britain, with finds known to range from the Channel coast to the northern frontier zone.

Keywords

whetstonesWeald Clay Formationmicroscopic petrographyRoman industry
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Shorter Contributions
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Britannia , Volume 46 , November 2015 , pp. 247 - 251
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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