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Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul
Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul
Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul
Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul
Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul

Roman masons socketed scutch chisel from Alise in Gaul

a hand forged water quenched S275JR steel socketed scutch chisel of the Roman period, nominally 8" long socket with beechwood handle, three prong scutch for working soft stone, based on two finds from Roman Gaul; 15913 from Compiegne and 60956 from Alise, for reference see the Catalogue illustré du Musée des antiquités nationales auchâteau de Saint-Germainen-Laye, par Salomon Reinach, 1917 (available online as a pdf). made in Sheffield England by Daegrad Tools