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Description: | Stone double-sided rubber or muller, oval in plan and an ovate rectangle in profile with two flattened utilised faces on opposing longitudinal sides. Both faces of the muller are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing, but one side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour.The rubber has been worked from a beach cobble of volcanic tuff / agglomerate made up of hardened volcanic ash/lava fragments. It is closely comparable with the rock forming reefs off the Great Hogus which is immediately north west of St Michaels Mount (Dr. Roger Taylor pers comm).Jones (2002) illustrates similar examples of a rubbing stone and a muller excavated from Callestick, Perranzabuloe, on page 29, Fig.12, Nos.43 & 93 which are dated from the Late Bronze Age, c.1100-700 BC.
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