Pitcher
identifier
ID 1251
morphology
craft
craft
holotype
MOT V 2003.0872 L=20,5cm WD=5,5cm WT=1140gr.
description
The pitcher is a short, heavy chisel with flattened cutting edge (approx. 4 mm wide) to chop off large pieces of a rough natural stone block as a first operation and thus get a good start for shaping the edge. The stonecutter strikes the pitcher with his stonemason’s hammer.
The paviour uses it to break excess pieces of paving tiles and split pavement stones (1).
This pitching tool is to be distinguised from the charring chisel and the flat chisel. [MOT]
(1) JELLEMA: 38-39.
MOT V 2003.0872