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Object Number 67-10-10/227
Display Title Stone pestle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ground stone pestle, rounded ends, oblong, some small losses
Classification
  • Pestle
Department Archaeological
Date before 1795
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Newton
Additional Geographic Terms Newtown, Massachusetts
Materials Groundstone
Dimensions Overall: 30.3 × 7.8 × 4.8 cm (11 15/16 × 3 1/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 227; 227; No. 227 / Newton. Mass / Deposited by Mass. Hist. Soc.
Provenance
Collector William Hoogs (1795)
Donor Donated by Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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