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Description: | A fragment of a rotary quernstone.The piece represents part of the outer edge of a circular quernstone. The remaining curvature suggests that this is from a hand-operated quern of between 0.5m and 1m diameter. A portion of the flat grinding surface remains at the top; the underside is irregular and may be damaged. The material employed is a coarse-grained gritstone in which occasional gravel-sized particles are contained within a sandy matrix. This stone is not found locally and has probably been imported from elsewhere in the country. The fragment measures up to 38.5mm wide, 45.2mm long and 28.2mm thick. The weight is 46.3g.Small rotary querns are a reasonably common find from the Roman period. For a complete stone of similar form and material, see BH-232966. There is little information about querns from the Early-Medieval period. In the Medieval and post-Medieval periods the hand-operated quern was largely superseded by windmills and water-powered mills, which used much larger stones.
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