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Description: | Half of the upper stone of a weathered granite rotary quern with a small central hole for a wooden spindle to hold it to the lower stone of the quern which would have also been perforated centrally. The spindle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The diameter of the sotne is about 350 mm and the height about 70 cm, and the diameter of the eye or hole about 20 mm.The granite is medium grained and has weathered so that its softer inclusions of felspars have worn to create hollows in the surface, while the harder quartz inclusions have remained proud of the surface, which created a shearing action to cut the grain.This quern fragment was found in a field to the south of several fields which have turned up many other fragments of rotary querns and both Roman and Romano-British material.Quinnell (2004) illustrates a similar example from Trethurgy on page 149, Fig.74, No.S46, which is from a 4th century AD layer.Romano-British period
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