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Description: | A fragment from the topstone of a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. It is biconical in form with a flat grinding face and dome-shaped top, containing yellow/red nodules. At the centre of the stone, where it terminates in old breaks, half of the central perforation or aperture is visible and although most of the outer edge of the stone is missing one small section of finished edge indicates that it had a radius of approximately 130mm and thus a diamater of approximately 260mm. It measures 175mm in surviving length, 130mm in surviving width, 70.10mm in thickness, and weighs 1787g. Querns such as this are probably Roman-British in date, probably dating to the 1st century AD (pers. comm. C. Tester, SCC).
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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