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Description: | The upper half of a Late Iron Age or Roman beehive rotary quernstone. The quernstone is of the Yorkshire or unpierced type. The quernstone has a flat, circular base and is cone shaped. There is a central hole which widens towards the top. On the side of the quernstone, there are two circular handle slot, one lower than the other. The lower slot is older than the upper and such an arrangement is not uncommon on beehive querns. The quernstone measures 225mm in height and has a maximum circumference of 300mm.
Beehive rotary querns tend to found on Late Iron Age and early Roman settlement sites. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Philippa Walton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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