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Description: | A stone vessel, a mortar of uncertain date, probably Post Medieval, probably about AD 1600 - 1700. The stone vessel is octagonal in plan with a flat base and a rounded top, with a circular concavity in the top, about 60mm deep, which forms the vessel. The top is abraded and irregular. The vessel is about 120mm tall, and about 220mm in diameter. There does not appear to be any decoration.Mortars or "creeing troughs" would have been used with a pestle for removing the husks from grain before cooking. Post Medieval examples often have distinctive shapes such as WILT-84FE96. Other more distinctively shaped examples can be assigned to the Medieval period, for example, number SOM-7790E6. Some examples can be seen in situ in the kitchens of historic houses. In the Yorkshire Pennines, such mortars were frequently highly decorated and individualised. An example is SWYOR-052CE2. Plain examples like the one recorded here are much harder to date.It is also possible that the bowl had a different function; perhaps as a lamp, a plague bowl or since it is from near a church, a piscina or stoop. However, the domestic function is most likely as all large houses would have had a mortar.
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