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ROTARY QUERN
Unique ID: NLM-9229F9
Object type certainty: Possibly
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medium grained and poorly compacted Sandstone possible rotary quern fragment. Sub-rectangular chip of sandstone with a possibly smoothed and chamfered curving edge at one end. The other end and all sides are flat, and one (top or bottom) face as illustrated bears a single diagonal groove, possibly adventitious damage. The curved end may suggest an origin in the flat top stone of a rotary quern. None of the faces is smoothed so as to suggest use as a hone or rubber - if this was a fragment of a broken quern shaped to form such an object, there is no trace of its use. The use of vaguely suitable grinding and sharpening stones was resorted to in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, though the Viking Age brought contact with sources of more suitable stones which came to dominate the medieval market for whetstones. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850.
Length: 96.8mm, Width: 34.9mm, Thickness: 18.8mm, Weight: 120.57gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 96.8 mm
Width: 34.9 mm
Thickness: 18.8 mm
Weight: 120.57 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM27510
Materials and construction
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Kelstern
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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