traces of use

It does show some traces of use, but presents very well and still is in excellent condition.

Early repairs and modifications, or traces of use such as wear marks on tools, may have historical significance.

Some spear-tips found in Axlor have traces of use, and they were probably used as projectiles.

Instead of attempting to erase the traces of use and damage, he elaborates on it, so that these works gain a new lease of life.

He has a particular affinity for stones that have been chipped, battered, scarred, stones that bear traces of use, age, physicality.

Microstratigraphic Traces of Uses and Concepts of Space at Tell Brak, par Wendy Matthews, University of California, Berkeley.

Sommerfeld further suggested that beyond their obvious usefulness as a tool (as indicated by the traces of use), bronze sickles during the Urnfield period had acquired a secondary function as commodity money.

Macroscopic traces of use: Microscopes are not the only tools that provide clues to a hand axe's use, some were used with such force that marks were left that are clearly visible.

However, there are also traces of use in the late classical and Hellenistic periods, related to the ancestors' cult, a practive particularly familiar in Messenia, but known also in the rest of Greece.

The area of Isernia was settled at least 700,000 years ago: the nearby site called Pineta has been cited in the magazine Science as the most ancient site where traces of use of fire by humans have been found.

Barthes then goes on to criticise the impermanence, smooth anonymity and "chemical coldness" of metal as opposed to the tactile qualities of wood which bears traces of use - just as Wright recalled the feel of those blocks in his hand.