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Description: | A large incomplete rotary quern. The lower stone only. The stone is a fine grained pale pinky-grey quartzite, probably sarsen. The stone is circular with a central circular perforation with an asymmetrical hour-glass profile. The upper, grinding face is convex. It is worn and smoothed through use. The edges, where they survive, are dressed. The underside is irregular and with some smoothing resulting from the stone being dragged and moved, but otherwise unmodified.Date: Roman - AD 43 - 410Dimensions: 380 mm x 35 mm (edge thickness) x 90 mm (thickness at centre. The perforation is 50 mm diameter at the top narrowing to about 25 mm at the mid-point.The quern originally had a top stone and nthe two were joined through the central perforation, probably by a wooden rod. Grain would be dropped into the perforation around the rod at top and pass down to be ground between the two stones as the top stone was rotated by hand. The lower stone remained stationary.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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