A Whetstone of Wealden Sandstone from the Roman Villa at Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex. (14th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Allen, J.R.L.
• Is Part Of: Britannia. Volume 46(2015)
• Page Start: 247
• Page End: 251
• Publication Date: 2015-07-14
• Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman -- Periodicals; Romans -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 936.10305
• DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X15000318
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0068-113X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>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.</p> </abstract>