Glass linen smoother. From BR87-88, The Brooks, Middle Brook Street, Winchester, Hampshire. Excavated by M. Morris, 1987-88.

Glass linen smoother or slick stone

Post-medieval, 16th century or later

Found during excavations by Winchester Museums Service Archaeology Section at The Brooks site, Middle Brook Street, Winchester in the late 1980s

Although this example is 16th century or later, such objects were used in cloth-finishing from late Saxon times onwards.