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| Image | Object Type | Find number | Broadperiod | County | Actions |
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Quern | NARC-D40182 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of drak brown stone with high percentage og quartzite and grit inclusions. Rectangular in section, and trapezoidal in plan due to the breaks, the lowers srface is uneven and broken, while the upper surface is smooth and slightly concave. The basic form of the upper surface and nature f... | |||||
| Quern | NARC-A65590 |
Roman | Northamptonshire |
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| A fragment of a quern stone of Early Roman date. Roughly triangular in shape with a bevelled outer edge. the stone is pinkish in colour, with large quartzite grit inclusions. | |||||
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Quern | LANCUM-12AFC3 |
Roman | Cumbria |
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| Nearly complete upper half of a Roman beehive quern, probably dating from the 2nd century AD. The stone is very heavy and dome-shaped with a fluted upper surface. Only one small piece from the outside is missing, but the central perforation as well as the side perforation are still present. Unmal... | |||||
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Quern | SF-6BC576 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment of grey lava quern stone of possible Roman or later date, probably imported from the Rhine. The fragment terminates in old breaks at both ends but preserves part of the curved outer edge as well as the grinding surface, which has radiating transverse ridges. It measures 196mm in width,... | |||||
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Quern | SF-6BB598 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment of grey lava quern stone of possible Roman or later date, probably imported from the Rhine. The fragment terminates in old breaks at both ends but preserves part of the curved outer edge as well as the grinding surface, which has radiating transverse ridges. It measures 116.77mm in wid... | |||||
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Quern | BH-E4F2F3 |
Roman | Essex |
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| Approximately half of a circular rotary quernstone of Roman (probably mid 1st to mid 2nd century) date. The truncated conical piece represents half of a top stone from a 'beehive' type quern. It is made from puddingstone, probably of East Hertfordshire origin. At the centre is an inverted conical... | |||||
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Quern | BH-85E584 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of a rotary quernstone, probably of Roman date. The piece does not appear to retain any portion of its outer side. Both surfaces show evidence of having been shaped the upper surface, worn smooth, has a 'pecked' appearace from the shaping process, while the underside bears several para... | |||||
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Quern | BH-85D191 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of a rotary quernstone, probably dating from the Roman period. The piece does not retain any portion of its outer side. The worked surface is slightly concave. The stone is an unidentified coarse gritstone which contains frequent large white pebbles. The object measures 125mm long, 100... | |||||
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Quern | BH-85B741 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| Two adjoining fragments of a circular rotary quernstone from a small hand-mill. The two pieces represent approximately one quarter of the original stone. At the centre is a portion of the central spindle hole. The upper surface is flat and bears some concentric grooves from the milling process. P... | |||||
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Quern | BH-859FC5 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of a rotary hand-quern of probable Roman date. The convex upper surface indicates that this is part of a base stone. The piece represents part of the outer side of an originally circular stone, the diameter of which would have been slightly wider than that of the remaining piece. The s... | |||||
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Quern | DENO-99FDB0 |
Roman | Lincolnshire |
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| Fragment of a hand-turned rotary quern, made from volcanic basalt lava probably imported from the Rhine area. Probably the lower stone. Includes the outer edge and the inner edge of the central hole (diameter c.40mm) which would have taken the spindle. The lower surface is pecked. The upper suraf... | |||||
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Quern | BH-B0C897 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A stone (probably a lower stone) from a Roman rotary quern. The stone is circular in plan and has, at its centre, a circular spindle hole measuring 32mm in diameter by 50mm deep. The upper surface has a gentle downwards slope, the outer edges are vertical, while the underside is flat and has... | |||||
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Quern | BH-B05291 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of a rotary quernstone of Roman (probably mid 1st to mid 2nd century) date. This piece represents part (approximately one quarter) of a hemispherical lower stone from a 'beehive' quern. The quern is made of puddingstone - a conglomerate containing rounded pebbles of various sizes ... | |||||
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Quern | BH-22EDB6 |
Roman | Bedfordshire |
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| A fragment of a rotary quernstone. The piece represents part of the outer edge of a circular quernstone. The remaining curvature suggests that this is from a hand-operated quern of between 0.5m and 1m diameter. A portion of the flat grinding surface remains at the top; the underside is irreg... | |||||
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Quern | LON-BC5DC6 |
Roman | Greater London |
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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. ... | |||||
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Quern | SWYOR-2EFA27 |
Roman | South Yorkshire |
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| 4 fragments of gritstone, which are probably fragments of querns. Numerous other pieces of similar material have been recovered from the same fields, and it does not appear to be a naturally occuring stone in this area. It has been suggested that the gritstone represents quernstones being c... | |||||
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Quern | BUC-877001 |
Roman | Buckinghamshire |
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| Part of the upper stone of a Roman rotary quern made from puddingstone. About a quarter of the domed circular quern survives. The inverted cone shape of the hole, through which the grain was poured down to the grinding surface is clearly visible. The lower stone on which this stone would have sat... | |||||
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Quern | SWYOR-02C0E3 |
Roman | South Yorkshire |
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| 59 fragments of gritstone, which are probably fragments of querns. Numerous other pieces of similar material have been recovered from the same fields, and it does not appear to be a naturally occuring stone in this area. It has been suggested that the gritstone represents quernstones being crus... | |||||
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Quern | CORN-FAEFF1 |
Roman | Cornwall |
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| Half of the upper stone from a greisen rotary quern, semi-circular in plan and sub-rectangular in section. The upper surface shows the stepped central hopper or recess, and one of the sections has a cylindrical aperture which was half of the socket for slotting a wooden handle into the stone quer... | |||||
| Quern | SWYOR-A51D91 |
Roman | South Yorkshire |
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| 7 fragments of quern stone. The pieces are irregularly shaped, but seem to be from circular objects originally. None of the flat grinding face can be identified, but most of the fragments have a face which is curved in two planes, and which appears to have been part of the outer faces of beehive ... | |||||
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Quern | SF-6639D1 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment from a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. It is dome-shaped with a flat grinding surface, dome-shaped top(?) surface and incomplete outer edge. It contains many oval shaped red/pink nodules, some of which are relatively large. The fragment measures 165mm in width,... | |||||
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Quern | SF-661F71 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment from a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. It is dome-shaped with a flat grinding surface, dome-shaped top(?) surface and a flattened outer edge. It contains many small irregular red/purple nodules with some large oval shaped nodules. The fragment measures 230mm in... | |||||
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Quern | SF-D29141 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment of grey lava quern stone of possible Roman or later date, possibly imported from the Rhine. Part of one edge is preserved, with a flattened grinding surface and rounded exterior edge. It measures 83.41mm in width, 54.19mm in length, 16.79mm in thickness, and weighs 110.01g. This quern ... | |||||
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Quern | BH-F93C20 |
Roman | Hertfordshire |
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| A fragment of a puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. The piece is sub-circular in plan. One surface has been deliberately flattened, the other is irregular and has been broken off. There is a small piece of a sub-vertical face, indicating that it comes from the outer edge of the quern. T... | |||||
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Quern | BH-F939B7 |
Roman | Hertfordshire |
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| A fragment of a puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. The piece is sub-circular in plan. The convex surface appears to have been deliberately shaped, while the underside is rough and has probably been broken off. The artefact measures 63.7mm in diameter, 35mm high and weighs 152.63g. | |||||
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Quern | BH-F92647 |
Roman | Essex |
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| A fragment of a Roman rotary hand-quern, made of puddingstone, probably quarried in East Hertfordshire. Such querns are thought to date from around the mid 1st to mid 2nd centuries AD. The rounded outer side, domed upper surface and flat bottom face indicate that the original stone would have... | |||||
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Quern | SF-241A28 |
Roman | Suffolk |
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| A fragment from the topstone of a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. It is biconical in form with a flat grinding face and dome-shaped top, containing yellow/red nodules. At the centre of the stone, where it terminates in old breaks, half of the central perforation or apertu... | |||||
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Quern | SF-E5B666 |
Roman | Essex |
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| A fragment from a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern. It has a flat grinding face and is biconvex in cross-section with red/grey and orange/yellow nodules. Around the edge of the quern close to the flattened grinding surface is a worked groove where an iron band would have originally been attached ... | |||||
| Quern | SF-D80032 |
Roman | Essex |
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| A fragment from a quern stone of Roman or later date. It is formed of porous grey volcanic stone, probably imported from the Rhineland, the surviving fragment being approximately triangular in plan, rectangular in section and with one flattened face to enable grinding. It measures 73.42mm in leng... | |||||
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Quern | WILT-754907 |
Roman | Wiltshire |
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| A fragment (consisting of roughly one quarter) of the upper stone of a Roman sarsen rotary hand mill or quern. It measures 240mm in length, 140mm in width and 53mm in thickness at the outside edge. The inside, perforated edge is 24mm thick, with a platform around it 32mm thick and 14mm wide. The ... | |||||
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