mace

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Description

Summary: 1 coarse and gritty stone macehead, or possibly a perforated hammer, it has been re-bored in antiquit, broken and has subsequently been used as a grinding or whetstone; one smoothed notch at the narrow end and a long groove on the reverse face, both indentations have sharpening gloss. Found during construction work together with a quantity of Romano-British pottery and clay tiles at Highworth, Wiltshire in 1968.


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