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QUERN
Unique ID: SF-385927
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Piece of Hertfordshire puddingstone quern, of probably first century, Roman date. It is a solid domed shape, 84mm in height at the centre, and 50% of the stone is present, with an estimated diameter of 340mm. The quern weighs 5830g. At the centre of the broken section of the quern is the funnel-shaped aperture, through which the grain would have been fed, 44.2mm in diameter at the top, approximately 15mm in the centre and 31.5mm at the bottom of the quern. Traces of wear on the underside of the quern show that it had been used.
Recent work at Heybridge suggests that puddingstone querns date to the first century AD (C.Tester personal comment).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 84 mm
Weight: 5830 g
Diameter: 340 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st April 2007
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: Little Wilbraham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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