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Description: | Complete rounded upper stone of a beehive quern. The hopper is a straight-sided funnel leading to a long narrow feed pipe. There is a handle slot low down on the side of the stone. The quern is carved from millstone grit and is well finished.Beehive querns are generally acknowledged as being a native form of rotary quern with a wide date range and a wide variety of forms. Dating is difficult but they seem to have originated in the 2nd century BC (Welfare, A.T., 1985, 'The milling stones' in Bidwell, P.T., The Roman Fort at Vindolanda at Chesterholm, Northumberland, Hist. Build. Monuments Comm. Archaeol. Rep. 1, 154-71) and persisited in use throughout the Roman period.Diameter of top = 230mmDiameter of bottom = 300mmDiameter of hopper = 140mmHeight = 180mm
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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