A Roman stone fragment from a rotary quern dating AD43-410. This is part of the lower stone of a hand turned quern made from volcanic lavastone from the Mayen-Niedermendig area of the Eifel Hills region of Germany. The fragment includes part of the outer edge and the inner edge to the spindle. The lower surface is pecked and the upper surface and the outer edge are dressed with lined tooling. On the upper surface the lined tooling comprises sections of diagonal parallel lines, spaced 2-3mm apart, and the sections are off-set against each other. On the outer edge there are vertical parallel lines covering the surface. There is a rectangular cutaway section adjacent to the spindle-hole on the upper surface. When complete this would have been a small rotary quern with an estimated external diameter of 200mm, other published examples have a diameter of c. 400mm.<\/p>
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Dimensions: width: 77.49mm; thickness: 35.47mm; estimated external diameter of complete quern: 200mm; weight: 588.7g.<\/p>
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A Roman stone fragment from a rotary quern dating AD43-410. This is part of the lower stone of a hand turned quern made from volcanic lavastone from the Mayen-Niedermendig area of the Eifel Hills region of Germany. The fragment includes part of the outer edge and the inner edge to the spindle. The lower surface is pecked and the upper surface and the outer edge are dressed with lined tooling. On the upper surface the lined tooling comprises sections of diagonal parallel lines, spaced 2-3mm apart, and the sections are off-set against each other. On the outer edge there are vertical parallel lines covering the surface. There is a rectangular cutaway section adjacent to the spindle-hole on the upper surface. When complete this would have been a small rotary quern with an estimated external diameter of 200mm, other published examples have a diameter of c. 400mm.<\/p>
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Dimensions: width: 77.49mm; thickness: 35.47mm; estimated external diameter of complete quern: 200mm; weight: 588.7g.<\/p>
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