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Writing Slate

Writing Slate

Several pieces of gray slate appear to have straight lines across their face and appear to have a tablet for calculation or record keeping.

Slate was helpful when paper was scarce, as well as when weather made its use difficult.

Tools and Instruments

  • Basin Fragment
  • Brass Scale Weight
  • Brass Surveying Sight
  • Brass Weights
  • Coin Weight
  • Dividers
  • Fishing Weights
  • Grindstone
  • Gunner's Bar
  • Iron Gouge
  • Large Silver Needle
  • Lead Weight
  • Mechanical Jack
  • Mortar and Pestle
  • Restraining Device
  • Sector
  • Survey Chain
  • Universal Staff Mount
  • Urethral Syringe
  • Whetstone
  • Writing Slate

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Queen Anne's Revenge 
Conservation Lab

ECU West Research Campus
1157 VOA Site C Road
Greenville, N.C. 27834

QAR@ncdcr.gov
(252) 744-6721

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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

Intersal, Inc.Nautilus Productions

 

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