This category includes objects used for pounding or grinding. These objects are probably used mostly in food preparation and fine manufacturing

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
22A (none) (none) (none) Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
22B (none) (none) (none) Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
195 (none) 1923,1110.49 (none) Granite pick-head. Broken. Ceremonial or votive offering. [drawing]
513 (none) (none) (none) Stone plummet. Coarse. Limestone. [drawing 1:1]
824 (none) (none) (none) Stone mortar. of fairly hard greenish grey stone. [drawing]
825 (none) (none) (none) Stone pestle. of hard whitish limestone.
3181 (none) 1927,1003.73 (none) Whetstone. Brown pebble, worn smooth, ends rounded.
6203 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone. Black. E. [drawing]
6235A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of black rubbing stones. Nob of one fitting into socket of the other. E.
6405 (none) (none) (none) Grindstone. Broken.
6651 (none) 1927,0527.66 (none) Mortar. Diorite. Grey. Vol. VII. See fieldnote C7 for sketch.
6990 (none) (none) (none) Grinder. Diorite? Black. Highly polished. Oval shaped, Long sides flat, short sides rounded. E.
7543 (none) 1928,1009.429 (none) Pestle. Greyish marble. Cylindrical with hemispherical top and bottom. Bottom slightly wider than top. [drawing 1:1]
7993 (none) 1928,1009.436 (none) Whetstone of greenish dark stone pierced at one end.
8025 (none) (none) (none) Stone rubber. Black diorite. [drawing 1:1]
8076 (none) 1928,1009.435 (none) Whetstone. Dark stone with remains of the copper ring through the hole in the smaller end. (octagonal section).
8090 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone. Brown stone, with hole at one end. Square section, the corners rounded off.
8151 (none) (none) (none) Stone mortar. Clumsily made of coarse stone. [drawing] Type XVI.
8255 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone. Flat, lentoid in section. Rounded top, flat base. Perforated top - through hole and fragment of copper wire probably originally suspended from the belt of the owner. [drawing ]1/2
8478 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone Octagonal in section Perforated top with part of copper wire inside hole [drawing] 1:2
8484 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone Octagonal Perforated top
8490 (none) (none) (none) Grindstone Roughly triangular with rounded edges. Slight hollow at one end. [drawing] 1:1
8491 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone Perforated top [drawing] 1:1
8511 (none) 1928,1009.437 (none) Whetstone Grey stone Section rectangular with bevelled corners: hole at end for suspension.
8563 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone. Grey stone. Pierced at the end where was a silver ring attaching it to the 3 big beads U.8562 and the gold chain U.8561A. See field notes.
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