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- Title
A whetstone from south-east England at Newstead, Melrose (Trimontium): the reach of a major Roman stone industry.
- Authors
Allen, J. R. L.
- Abstract
James Curie found at Newstead near Melrose an unusual whetstone of bar-shaped design, with rebates on the long edges, that is now on public display at the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh). It is made from a greenish-grey, calcareous, very fine-grained sandstone, attributable to sandstones in the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) outcropping in the Weald of south-east England. Carefully manufactured whetstones produced by a large business in this area occur throughout most of Roman Britain and are also found on the coastal mainland of north-west Europe. The Newstead example is the northernmost of its products known on a spatially exponential distribution of sites.
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2016, Vol 146, p113
- ISSN
0081-1564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.9750/PSAS.146.1216