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Description: | Around half of the upper stone of a Roman rotary hand mill or quern. The stone has one broadly flat face, and one concave; the latter is much finer in terms of the chip marks which cover the exterior of the stone and would have been a grinding face. This latter, lower surface, features numerous concentric grooves.
The curvature of the stone suggests that it would have originally had a diameter of c. 350mm. It is not circular, however; both sides have been truncated. The upper surface features half of a quatrefoil perforation centrally. Running from this to the circumference around the point the stone broke in two is a recessed channel (handle slot). Wear notwithstanding, the thickness of this artefact is consistent with early Roman querns rather than Iron Ages ones (Rees et al. 2008, 99-100) and this dating has been suggested here. The stone is non-local to the findspot being greensand and originating in Lodsworth, West Sussex. | Subjects: | Rotary | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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