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Roman Saw reconstruction
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My guess has more to do with the size rather then the number of teeth, normally I'd use a small saw with a lot of tpi as well but it may work for cutting thicker bone or horn rather then something like comb teeth... totally agree on the re-used blade a fragment of a frame saw blade in the BM from Hod-Hill has about the same width which looks like it was part of a Carpenters? tool kit!...

Theres quite a few frame saw blades on Artefacts as well:

Frame saw blades Artefacts

A model frame saw BM sometimes you find these as brooches

Makes me think of the two saw blades though from the old London Museum cat, I dont know where these are now maybe the Museum of London?:

   

Theres no measurements given but from the look of it a similer size or a bit bigger then the Newstead saw... one at least may have been made by altering a knife?
Ivor

"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
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RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Dan Howard - 06-26-2017, 08:24 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Robert - 06-26-2017, 02:13 PM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Crispianus - 06-28-2017, 07:19 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Robert - 06-28-2017, 09:21 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Robert - 06-28-2017, 09:54 PM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Robert - 06-29-2017, 08:30 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Crispianus - 09-06-2017, 10:09 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Crispianus - 09-07-2017, 08:04 AM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Sue Wilson - 09-13-2017, 04:32 PM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Sue Wilson - 09-14-2017, 02:05 PM
RE: Roman Saw reconstruction - by Sue Wilson - 09-16-2017, 08:31 AM

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