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Record ID: NLM-4E8457
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well-compacted Sandstone with sparse shelly inclusions and moderately abundant rounded black stone inclusions of up to 5mm in length.
Rotary Quern. Probably the top stone from a quern. The stone is roughly fashioned to plano-convex form with a central hour-glass shaped feed hole drilled from both sides, with a diameter of 78mm at the lower face. The upper, convex, surface includes three adjacent sub-triangular indentations of depths circa 12mm, 13mm and 30mm, along with a further shallower slot on the other side of the feed hole. These may relate to the provision of a handle for rot…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2013
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Record ID: NLM-9229F9
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: 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…
Created on: Friday 16th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 19th January 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Kelstern', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-9786AD
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained compacted Sandstone rotary quern fragment. The upper stone from a large rotary quern, chipped with loss of over half its fabric. The damage includes the removal of large flakes or chunks from the upper surface, and subsequent reddening of the exposed fracture surfaces by burning. The former could relate to the deliberate 'killing' of the object, a behaviour often sought in prehistoric contexts investigated by controlled excavation, while the latter might arise from its subsequent incorporation into a hearth or oven - a pattern of reuse often found in areas devoid of good …
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Wetwang', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-2725D3
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fine grained compacted Sandstone, probable rotary quern fragment. A small chunk probably broken from the top stone. One side is smoothed and dished by wear. The other side bears faint traces of probably radial parallel grooves. Two edges are angled, which may suggest that on at least one side this object comes from the edge of a feed hole into which grain would be poured as the quern was in use. As the angling - on both the sides where it appears - would presuppose the stone to be the upper stone of a pair, it suggests that the quern was ?subsequently inverted to permit the now-worn s…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-21AA56
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coarse-grained Sandstone of a pale tint, rotary quern fragment. Flat lower stone from a pair, probably a hand-operated discoid quern. The fragment bears five straight grooves of width 7mm passing across its flat working surface. The grooves are arranged in groups of three and two, radiating eccentrically so as to send ground flour to the outer edge. The underside is roughly pecked, and the side or rim pecked and then smoothed. About one quarter of the stone is present, indicating an estimated diameter of 230mm. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410
Thickness: 36.8mm, Estimated Diameter:…
Created on: Thursday 9th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th December 2021
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This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.
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