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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F5B5E0
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper part of a Late Iron Age or Roman rotary quern made of Hertfordshire puddingstone. Externally, it is sub-conical (with a flattened top), 12cm tall, with slightly convex sides and a flat sub-circular working face underneath. The base is 32m in diameter and is likely to have been originally circular but some fragments have since broken off from around the edge. The rest of the external surface is well preserved, as is the surface of the conical hopper, which passes through the centre from top to bottom, with an apparently uniform taper and circular openings. The diameter of the ope…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-BF2D70
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of rotary quernstones of probable Roman date. The larger fragment was found initially and the smaller one discovered close by on a subsequent visit. Both finds comprise small sections of larger disc-shaped quernstones, each featuring part of the original curved outer edges. The stone from which they are formed appears to be volcanic. The larger fragment has parallel, diagonal grooves across one face, while both faces of the smaller fragment are smooth, suggesting that they are not part of the same object. The form of the quern and the volcanic nature of the stone in…
Created on: Friday 30th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Harkstead', 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetwang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C08387
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of sandstone rotary quern, dating to the Iron Age - Roman period (c.400 BC - AD 410). The fragment is from the top half of the quern and is triangular in both shape and cross-section. The underside is a little concave with an area in one corner that is worn smooth. At the edge, the object measures 65.2mm in thickiness/ height; this narrows to 22.9mm at the opposite end. The fragment measures 125.7mm in length and 113.0mm in width. It weighs 860g (to the nearest 2g).
Created on: Monday 27th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton and Shawford', 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelstern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-7892B1
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Part of Late Iron Age to Early Roman rotary quern. The surviving piece represents approximately one third of the originally ring-shaped upper stone of classic 'bee-hive' form. The outer sides angle inwards, towards the top. The inverted-conical hopper is centrally located and there is also a conical handle socket which extends horizontally through the stone, from the outer face to just short of the hopper. The flat underside of the stone is well worn through use. Length of piece: 190mm; width: 90mm; height: 90mm; weight: 2.345kg. Chris Green has examined this quernstone and i…
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-31A4D7
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a sandstone upper stone of a rotary quern likely to date to the Iron Age/Roman period (c.100 BC-AD 410). Roughly a quarter of the quernstone survives. The upper surface is uneven but broadly convex and rough to the touch (as is also the outside edge). The lower surface is very smooth to touch, concave and a pinkish colour. In shape the fragment is roughly triangular with a concave edge at the apex, part of the hole for the missing handle which would have turned the quern. It measures c.165mm x c.160mm x c.63mm.
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Mewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8D6C56
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper part of a beehive rotary quern in coarse grained sandstone. Sub-circular, with wide off-centre hopper tapering slightly towards the base, circular handle-slot in side which penetrates through to the hopper. On the upper edge there is a wedge-shaped groove with a u-shaped profile, 40mm long and 20mm wide at maximum. Diameter at base 240 - 255mm. Height 145mm. Behive querns were in use over a long period and are not very closely dateable. They are known from Iron Age and Roman contexts.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-008151
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete set (three larger and possibly two smaller fragments) of a rotary quern for grinding grain to create flour, probably dating from the Roman period, i.e. AD43-410, although similar household rotary querns were in use until the 19th century. Earlier examples of similar shape (called 'beehive querns', see examples in Ingle 1993/4, 21-33.) were also in use in the later pre-Roman Iron Age, but a Roman date is the most likely one for this rotary quern. Two of the images show the complete lower half on the right and half of the upper part on the left; the smaller fragments m…
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2008
Last updated: Saturday 8th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-C98766
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a small circular rotary quernstone. Rotary querns probably first came into use in the late Iron Age and were employed through the Roman period and probably into the Early-medieval period (see E.C. Curwen, 1937). This particular piece represents part of the outer edge of a disc-shaped quern, originally of c. 0.5m in diameter. It is made from a coarse-grained sedimentary rock, with large quartz-like inclusions, and may be millstone grit. There are no grooves in the surfaces. The fragment measures 134.83mm long, 60.5mm wide and 45.43mm thick. The weight is 550.3g.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-620350
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worked granite rotary quern stone; about 1/4 of its underside missing. Only the top half remains. The central perforation which is not very deep and of a smallish diameter is still in good condition although does show signs of wear. The underside of this half has a chipped edge and there is a ridge to indicate the location of the quern handle.
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dalton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-C427D2
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of fine grained rotary quernstone. Part of the upper stone with remnant of the peg hole for rotation. Smoothed concave grinding surface and smoothed upper surface, probably from re-use as a whetstone. The outer edges are roughly dressed. Probably Roman.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2012
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Record ID: IOW-EEDE26
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Ferruginous Sandstone rotary quern (upper stone) of Roman date (AD 43 - AD 410). Length 135mm, width 151mm and maximum thickness 67mm. Weight 1512g. The fragment is part of an upper quernstone and is composed of well sorted iron-stained sand. It is sub-triangular in plan, this shape having been created by two breaks. One of the breaks appears to be older than the other. In cross-section it is also sub-triangular in shape. At the outer edge is 67mm thick and the inner edge is 36mm thick The length and curvature of the outer edge suggests that it represents about 16% of the…
Created on: Friday 26th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calbourne Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-616AB5
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper half of a stone rotary quern. Sally Worrell has discounted it being either Iron Age or Roman. Ottaway & Rogers (2002:2799) state that rotary querns were used widely during the middle and later Saxon periods but that prohibition during the 12th century resulted in the decline of their use. No exact parallel was found for this quernstone to assist with dating it further. It is circular with angular/squared off edges; in the centre is an elongated circular perforation(the perforation has been worn at opposite points creating two worn semi-circular projections from the main c…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thatcham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-E35226
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a quern stone, probably of Medieval date. The stone is a conglomerate with large quartz inclusions. This is likely to be the upper stone of pair of quern stones. The inner area, near the centre of the stone has a raised rounded collar, before the opening to take the grain. The underside of the quern is smooth and has a slight concave profile.
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: LVPL1824
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Trafford
Workflow stage: Published
Upper stone of a beehive rotary quern. Fragment missing.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREATER MANCHESTER WARBURTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4816
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rotary quern made from puddingstone. Plano-convex, less than a quarter survives with no trace of the central hole. Probably an upper stone, although there is also no trace of a hole in the outside for a turning stick, or of iron bands to hold a handle for turning. Rounded orange or occasionally orange/red inclusions. Original diameter approx. 320 mm, height 90 mm, too heavy to weigh with a conventional balance. The stone for these querns comes from Hertfordshire and the centre for their manufacture may have been the Verulamium area.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CREETING ST PETER OR WEST CREETING', grid reference and parish protected.