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Record ID: SWYOR-6A10D2
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone implement which has been pecked to form a narrower waist, in a sub-cylindrical stone. One face is damaged and missing, making the exact shape hard to determine. Both ends are wedge shaped, worn on an angle. The stone is probably sandstone. It is fine grained and has some mica particles. It is 125mm long, 48mm wide and 38mm thick. 279g.
Mullers, used with a saddle quern, were used for grinding cereals. They are frequently plano-convex, but the damage on this example makes it hard to know if this was the case. Another possible object type is a maul, used in mineral dressing,…
Created on: Sunday 16th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2019
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Record ID: NLM-60D404
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
White heavily patinated flint with cortex, probably from Glacial Drift, possibly a fragment of debitage reworked as a muller or grinder. A small sub-rectangular and handy block with crystalline fracturing along all its arises. The flint has been very roughly trimmed by two or three strokes of abrupt hard hammer working in antiquity; such rough work is typical of the Bronze Age. It was then probably abandoned, as subsequent grinding appears to post-date the formation of a dense white patina on all exposed surfaces. This later use seems to have been to grind material with the considerab…
Created on: Friday 16th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
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