Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
CC License: 
Image use policy
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
MULLER
Unique ID: CORN-C28911
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Small granite cobble rubbing stone, sub-circular in plan, and oblong in profile and section. The lower face or base has been ground to a smooth flat surface, suggesting possible use as a rubbing stone, and the edges have been weathered to rounded protuberances. This is one of a group of cobbles found in the same area, made of various materials, that were used as domestic artefacts such as mullers, rubbers and whetstones. All of these would be at home on a Middle Bronze Age settlement. Unfortunately we know insufficient about the range of stone artefacts used in Neolithic Cornwall to make any definitive statement. Obviously the whetstones could not be of this date but there seems no reason why the other artefacts could not be Neolithic. This group has not been examined by Roger Taylor, and provisional identifications are being provided by Henrietta Quinnell (Henrietta Quinnell, Clodgy Moor stonework, forthcoming).
Examples of rubbing stones have been found on Bronze Age sites in Cornwall, such as the Earlier Bronze Age site at Stannon Down, St Breward, illustrated in Jones (2008) on page 91, Fig.31, No.SF116, and the Later Bronze Age site at Callestick, Perranzabuloe, illustrated in Jones (2002) on page 29, Fig.12, No.43.
Class: rubber
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2100 BC
Date to: Circa 700 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 70 mm
Width: 70 mm
Thickness: 35.5 mm
Weight: 237.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005 - Monday 28th February 2005
Personal details
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference numbers
Other reference: 149.2
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones, A.M. | 2002 | The excavation of a later Bronze Age structure at Callestick | Bristol | J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. | 29, Fig.12, | No.43 | |
| Jones, A.M. | 2008 | Settlement and Ceremony: archaeological investigations at Stannon Down, St. Breward, Cornwall | Bristol | 4word Ltd. | 91, Fig.31, | No.SF116 |
Similar objects
Find number: CORN-C35011
Object type: MULLER
Broadperiod: BRONZE AGE
Fragment of a granite cobble muller, semi-circular in plan and section, and oblong in profile. The lower face or base has been ground to a sm…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: CORN-2D9AE8
Object type: MULLER
Broadperiod: BRONZE AGE
Fragment of greenstone cobble, triangular in plan, C-shaped in profile and semi-circular in section. The upper surface is rising at an 80-70…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: CORN-C424B2
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broadperiod: BRONZE AGE
Small bladed cobble, probably metamorphosed slate, oblong in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile, and plano-convex in section. One face has be…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Timeline of associated dates
About Us
About our Site
Find us
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
T: +44(0) 20 73238618