Slate pencil
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This stick of slate would have been used for writing on a sheet of a harder variety of slate. Once common, particularly in schools in the 19th and 20th centuries, where is would be used to practise handwriting etc, this technology has become completely obsolete.
Material: stone
Period: Modern
Find spot: Hampstead Road, Brislington, Bristol. ST 612710
Exhibit contributed by Ken Taylor
Text written by Ken Taylor, 2012
Photographer: Ken Taylor
Acquisition number: 120302a3