Pestle
- Object Name:
- Pestle
- Object ID:
- 1977.502.015
- Description:
- Pestle. Medium gray stone. Shape slightly irregular cylinder. Ends rounded. One end slightly more complete than other end; smooth with small, worn chip missing from one side. Opposite end, rounded, with rougher worn chips near it and in rounded end. This end, irregular area on one side, leads to long, longitudinal imperfection in stone. Irregular groove in stone from near end to just beyond center. Worn area. Same imperfection extends all the way to working end or bottom where it is just slight imperfection. Small grooves and gouges on either side of central imperfect area. Light gray stone core, dark gray surface over it which may be age, hand oils, and/or residue from what was being processed. Several different grain and boundary layers in stone, seen on surface. Stone has slight bell characteristic when carefully struck.
- Material:
- Stone
- Dimensions:
- L-17.5 Dia-1.9 inches Weight-64.6 oz
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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