Description

A grinding wheel broken into two fragments [SCW547 & 548] comprised the final essential element of the carpenter’s toolkit, given the need to maintain so many bladed tools. The grinding wheel would also have been employed to maintain the edges of domestic knives, razors and the edged weapons, such as swords and daggers. The wheel is 75mm thick of a course sandstone with an overall diameter of 610mm. It has a square hole in the centre 85mm which appeared to have the wooden axle

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