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Description: | Fragment of a Ferruginous Sandstone rotary quern (upper stone) of Roman date (AD 43 - AD 410). Length 135mm, width 151mm and maximum thickness 67mm. Weight 1512g.The fragment is part of an upper quernstone and is composed of well sorted iron-stained sand. It is sub-triangular in plan, this shape having been created by two breaks. One of the breaks appears to be older than the other. In cross-section it is also sub-triangular in shape. At the outer edge is 67mm thick and the inner edge is 36mm thick The length and curvature of the outer edge suggests that it represents about 16% of the total circumference of the complete quern and when complete, the diameter would have been about 36cm. The underside and the outer edge have "peck" marks which reveal how the object was originally shaped. The concave underside has small areas of polish which were created when the quern was in use. High-spots of the undulating upper surface have also been polished. It is not clear how this polish on the upper surface was created if the upper quernstone was being used in the conventional manner. A tapering linear groove on the surface of the outer edge is probably plough damage. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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