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« on: May 21, 2015, 08:28:50 am »
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Some days ago I found stone. May be it is stone for confinement sword or sabre. Which army and time used this type stone?
Size 35x90 mm

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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2015, 09:51:53 am »
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  Something seems to have been lost in the Translation.   I'm thinking the rock is of Natural Shape and Form.    Looks to be a form of Basalt.  Basalt comes out hot like Lava and molds around any thing it lands on.  In this case a Rectangular Rock.   It does how ever look like it has been used as a honing or sharpening stone.   My Self, I would had used the other side of the stone to sharpen my Sward.  No, I do NOT think that was a purpose made tool. 

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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2015, 10:42:03 pm »
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Thank you for reply.  Yes I  used word confinement but must be sharpening. I tried to grind an edge of a knife for a hunt. It turns out not bad. But than a soldiers sharpened own weapon in campaigns?

Posted on: May 21, 2015, 09:49:39 pm
This stone is not a basalt rock. It is sandstone or granite.

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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2015, 10:24:39 am »
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That is not sand stone, that much I can tell you because it's too smooth, sand stone is light and gritty and breaks very easily.

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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2015, 10:36:44 am »
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It's Basalt.  We have plenty of old Volcanoes here and that is the stuff.   

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Yes it is basalt. Granite has larger crystals in it. Found a similar one like yours in the wash out here. It was washed there by flood stage water, got lodged between some rocks and was worn smooth by the water over time. It had an indent like that. Just Au Natural. Interesting though. Keep looking though you never know when you might find something of value.

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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2015, 12:44:20 pm »
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if it were for sharpening a knife or sword, its name is a WHETSTONE (at least in british english), though i agree that its natural.

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if it were for sharpening a knife or sword, its name is a WHETSTONE (at least in british english), though i agree that its natural.


Yea, thats what we call them too here in the US. Whetstones are manufactured.

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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2015, 09:22:32 am »
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Took this from wikipedia, quite interesting

It is thought that Whetstone was named after the whetstone used to sharpen knives and other tools, a chunk of which is located on the High Road, on the pavement outside the Griffin pub. Some question this and suggest the stone was placed there as a mounting block for climbing on to horses as the Griffin was a coaching inn. It is also said that the name Whestone is merely a corruption of an old Anglo-Saxon name. Legend has it that it was used by soldiers about to fight in the Battle of Barnet.

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    Color of this stone - brown (not black). Therefore I am more declined to name as sandstone. It is visible that a groove at a stone was formed owing to longtime grinding (or sharpening) of the weapon (knife, sabre or sword). That is not natural way. Else the edges of this groove would have the round form.

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