Record ID: LEIC-D83266
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron age/early Roman flat quern fragment, 146mm long, 97mm wide and 28mm thick. The quern has a grey/brown patina and is made from a volcanic honeycomb rock. The fragment has an even thickness and appears to be part of the base stone. It has clear grooves worn into one surface.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-E81E20
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age beehive quern, 155mm high and 270mm in diameter at its base. The object represents the upper part of a Hunsbury type beehive quern. It has roughly carved tapering sides with a sub rectangular hole in its side to take a handle and a hole in its base for the grain to pass through. It is probably made from Derbyshire millstone grit and was found in garden in Brixworth, Northants. The object was in-situ when the house was purchased so its original location is unknown.
Created on: Monday 1st November 2010
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-F96693
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron age? possible saddle quern grinder c.200mm long, 160mm wide and 68mm thick. (not weighed). The object is circular in form and eliptical in section with one slightly concave surface and one quite rounded. It is formed of millstone grit and has signs of wear on the rounder surface.
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.