Thread: One for Howards Museum?

ROMAN SLATE HONE FOUND 1909 on eBay, also, Roman, Antiquities, Antiques (end time 19-Nov-08 12:25:28 GMT)

Uh oh! Looks like someone from the Time Team is making a little extra cash on the side....

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Uh oh! Looks like someone from the Time Team is making a little extra cash on the side....

James.

I should clean your clock for that anachronistic comment! Just hope this little green guy doesn't get wound up and ticked off

I dunno. To me it looks more like the business end of a stone hoe (note: no N).

According to many, slate don't hone. Hoe it may; hone it don't.

I agree with Bruce, it doesn't look like a hone to me either.... It looks like it was a VERY primitave razor at one time, judging by the way it narrows down at the one end. Weren't pieces of slate used for shaving once upon a time??

Dave

Its way to small to be either, although it does look broken at one end.

Originally Posted by Bruce

According to many, slate don't hone. Hoe it may; hone it don't.

Bruce, don't tell that to the Welsh makers of the affordable Dragon's Tongue hone!

Chris L

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Its way to small to be either, although it does look broken at one end.

Mica(!?), it's the only cutting material in many stones.