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Record ID: NLM-353814
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone quern fragment. A sub-triangular chunk of fine grained red-buff Sandstone, possibly reused as a sharpening stone. The overall form includes a short [40mm] extent of a curved edge, and an aris where two flat surfaces meet at an acute angle opposite the curved side; the intervening surface is flat and probably lightly dished by wear, the fourth large side is broken. These characteristics could point to this being a fragment of a rotary quern of estimated original diameter 260mm. The Romano-British period also saw the use of a wide range of sharpening and polishing stones, which…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-E0C525
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman Millstone Grit rotary quernstone, an upper stone with much recent damage on all surfaces. Loss of the original surface is particularly noticeable around the edge and in the hopper (the concave area around the hole on the upper face). Diameter 330mm, height / thickness 70 - 90mm, weight 9.8kg. Central hole diameter 30 - 40mm. Handle hole diameter c.20mm, depth at least 50mm. A Roman date is reasonably certain. Post-Roman quernstones in any material apart from Rhenish lava have not been recorded in Norfolk (e.g. Clarke and Carter 1977, 444; …
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2443FD
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Millstone Grit quern fragment without extant edge but with part of central perforation (diameter c.80mm), weight 415g, mid 1st - 4th century.
Possibly Roman sandstone fragment, ?quern or sharpening stone?, not rotary, one smoothed concave face, thickness c.42mm, weight 612g
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: SUR-410646
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Approximately half of the lower stone of a rotary quern. The stone is a grey sandstone.
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2004
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-412337
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large fragment of what appears to be a saddle quern. The concave face is worn smooth, except for the extremities. The reverse is lightly-pecked and less curved than the other side. At its narrowest the fragment is 28mm wide.
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2004
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-08DFB5
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age or Romano-British broken quern stone. The length is 300mm and width is 160mm.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'BECKFOOT', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: OXON-0F374D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of one section of a cylindrical rotary quernstone/millstone of Roman or later date.
It is a small section, trapezoidal in shape, of a much larger flat, disc-shaped quernstone. The upper face is rough and slightly convex. Traces of a central circular hole on the millstone remains on one side of the fragment. The outer surface is a dull brown colour but its core is an orange red with occasional white stone inclusions.
The querstone is 175mm long, 140mm wide and 70mm thick. This example was too heavy to weigh on the scale available.
Unmalted g…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-CB9008
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete rotary quernstone of probable Roman date, c.AD 43 - 410. Beehive or disc type.
The quernstone is circular with a deep hopper, non-directional harping on the grinding surface, and at least two mouldings on the upper side from where it may have been clamped/had a handle attached. A central perforation, or eye, is present from top to bottom of the quernstone. A second a circular perforation, a handle slot, is also present to one side.
The quernstone is approximately 350mm in diameter, and 92mm thick. The eyes 34mm in diameter and the handle slot is 12mm in diameter.
The gene…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-631B2D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
B3 Fragment of upper stone of a Roman Rhineland lava quern with a recess or reduction of thickness on the upper face c.45mm from the edge (cf. Rogerson 1977, fig. 64 nos.1-3), weight 652g, diameter 420mm, thickness at edge 63mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: BH-6EE12B
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of pudding stone, probably from a Roman quern. The fragment is an irregular trapezoidal shape and broadly triangular in cross-section with rounded corners and edges. One surface is curved and although missing a corner constitutes the outer face, while one of the adjacent surfaces is flat and is evidently the grinding surface. The remaining face is broken unevenly and was part of the body of the quern. The stone is comprised of a collection of reddish-brown coloured pebbles held together by a natural white-coloured cement consisting of silica and sand.
The fragment measures …
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: NLM-118667
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lava quern fragment. A wedge-shaped fragment from a quern stone, rounded by abrasion. One flat face is smoother than the other – though not by much – marking the working side of the stone. The rounded form at the broader end of the fragment may suggest a biconical or hourglass feed hole set centrally to the pair of stones whence this fragment derives. Lava from Eifel in Western Germany was exploited to make quern stones from the Roman period, and these were also the subject of trade between Carolingian Europe and England in the early 9th century. Suggested date: Roman, 43-4…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-7672FA
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of one section of a cylindrical rotary quernstone/millstone of Roman or later date. It is a small section, trapezoidal in shape, of a much larger flat, disc-shaped quernstone, although it is not clear whether it is the upper or lower stone. The outer grinding surface has been dressed with pecking, while the other face is roughly dressed. The fragment is roughly rectangular in cross-section, but the original shape, circumference and the form of the central hole are all unclear due to its fragmentary condition. It is a mid-grey, fine-grained, volcanic stone with vesicular sur…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Helmingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-753EAA
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of one section of a cylindrical rotary quernstone/millstone of Roman or later date. It is a small section, sub-triangular in shape, of a much larger flat, disc-shaped quernstone, although it is not clear whether it is the upper or lower stone. The outer grinding surface has been dressed with transverse, parallel raised ridges, each one roughly 20mm apart from one another, while the other face is roughly dressed. The fragment is roughly rectangular in cross-section, but the original shape, circumference and the form of the central hole are all unclear due to its fragmentary …
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Helmingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-99EF4B
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone Roman quernstone dating to circa AD 43-410. The surviving element is around half of the lower stone. The stone is sandstone. It is a flat quernstone. It is straight sided with a now convex but now uneven based. The grinding surface is flat and heavily worn. The spindle hole is circular in plan with steep, oblique sides. The spindle hole is completely perforated and is 45mm in diameter.
Shaffrey notes that flat quernstones came to be in use in southern England during the 1st century AD and are predominantly worked from sandstone (2021).
Diameter: 400mm; Th…
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2021
Last updated: Friday 26th November 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-92DCA3
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete quern stone of Iron Age to Roman date (c.100 BC - AD 100).
Description: The stone has a low "bun-shape", common amongst quern stones of this era. The sides are gently curved and sloping and it has a concave top with a central conical perforation forming the hopper. The grinding surface has been worn fairly flat. Approximately a third of the stone is missing, broken in antiquity. There are traces of iron staining, probably from metallic deposits which litter the area.
Measurements: 340mm in diameter, 250mm across to the broken side, 110mm high, weight 15.6kg.…
Created on: Friday 26th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D96513
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments from a Roman Hertfordshire pudding stone quern dating to the period c. AD 43 - 409. D-shaped in cross-section, with traces of a central circular perforation for rotation, now 23mm in diameter. The bottom grinding surface has been worn smooth through use. The curved upper surface exhibits traces of a white substance, possibly mortar. This may indicate reuse as a building stone.
Pudding stone is a conglomerate of pebbles held together in a natural cement of silica and sand.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2021
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Record ID: WILT-8F7377
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
1 fragment of lava quern, upper stone, max.60mm in thickness, diam c.310mm.
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2021
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This findspot is known as 'West Lavington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-806EC6
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained compacted buff Sandstone rotary quern fragment, perhaps comprising a little under a quarter of the original conical to hemispherical top stone of a pair, and of an estimated diameter of 210mm. The function is indicated by a relict part of its flat smoothed lower working surface, of length 131mm and width 55mm. Opposite this, on the upper part of the stone, a narrow relict smoothed zone of length 65mm and width 15mm includes a descending curve on its inner edge, marking a central feed hole. This may suggest that the external surface of the stone, or at least that part near…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-81319E
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained buff Sandstone with very occasional grey flint inclusions (of lengths 3-8.5mm), now variably reddened by burning on all surfaces, from reuse as building material or flue-lining; two rotary quern fragments, probably from the same stone. An effectively vertical curved outer edge on the larger fragment permits estimation of its original diameter of 340mm. Rough concave hollows, typically of diameter 10-25mm, mark pecking extending to its adjacent upper and lower surfaces. These hint at a lightly plano-convex form for the stone. However, no smoothed grinding surfaces appear o…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-81D135
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dense fine-grained reddish-buff Sandstone possible quern fragment, chipped and burnt across all surfaces. A thick lump of non-local stone recovered from a reuse context where it formed an element in a lining, wall or footing made up of reused materials; three fragments more securely identifiable as from two other rotary querns accompanied this object, though these were made from stones of lesser density. This is possibly a fragment representing a third quern in this group. The measurements of the chunk cannot firmly identify its height were this identification sustained; i.e. the orie…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.
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