Gouge
- Object Name:
- Gouge
- Object ID:
- 1977.502.044
- Description:
- Stone gouge, found in New London, NH. Renumbered 1888.002. Dark gray stone. Slightly tapering cylinder with deep concave gouge on top surface. Concave groove turns down front end to form cutting edge that now has some chips in it. Bottom surface comes up at front to meet top surface at rough cutting edge. Brown residues on top and bottom surfaces and along sides. Back end tapers to slightly rounded end with chip missing from top. Some scrapes and chips along bottom that tapers upward at rear. Paper label glued to inside of groove. Rectangular, off-white with black ink, script: "Presented to the N.H. Hist. Society / by Stephen D. Messer, Esq. of / New London, N. H. 1885."
- Material:
- Stone
- Dimensions:
- H-1.5 W-2 L-8.4 inches Weight-21.45 oz
- Provenance:
- Gift of Stephen D. Messer, Esq., New London, NH.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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