Record ID: CORN-78F62C
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worked stone or rubbing stone or 'muller' of unknown date, but probable prehistoric, given its findspot context. It is likely constructed from a fine-grained granite. The fragment is trapezoidal in plan. On one side it has been ground flat with a slight indentation, and the other side has been ground in a convex shape. The complete end has been rounded and shaped smooth which follow the lines of the sides. The broken edge appears to have been worked, so as to smooth out the damage. Measurements : length 69.53mm, width 54.2954.29mm, thickn…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-A79ABE
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible muller or rubbing stone of possibe Neolithic- Bronze Age date. The object is made of black polished flint that is triangular in section, profile and plan.One edge of the stone has been deliberately used to create a flattened smooth edge.Possibly used for working leather, pottery, or stone.  Similar : Mason, E (2022) CORN-A7CCE4: A NEOLITHIC UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Web page available at: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1084749
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: CORN-40255A
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken greisen or altered granite muller dating from the Bronze Age. The muller is sub-oval in plan with one rounded end and one straight end, plano-convex in profile and asymmetrically plano-convex in profile: 275 mm in length, 147 mm in width, 89 mm maximum thickness and approximately 5.3 kg in weight. Made on a coarse-grained granite boulder with evidence of pecking on the convex surface which has been ground smoother at both ends. One end has been broken off at a slight angle and the broken surface pecked smooth and flat. The lower face has been pecked and then ground to produce…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-401EC1
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fine-grained granite or aplite muller or rubbing stone dating from the Bronze Age. The muller is oval in plan and plano-convex in profile and section; 216 mm in length, 134 mm in width, 80 mm in thickness and approximately 2.9 kg in weight. The shape of the muller suggests that it was made from a beach cobble, one face of which has been ground to produce a smooth flat surface. The convex surface is scarred by two shallow, parallel scratches where it has been hit by an agricultural machine. The flattened surface displays evidence of use as a rubbing stone: the two ends are very sligh…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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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: CORN-091656
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete fine-grained granite (Roger Taylor pers comm) rubbing stone or 'muller' dating from the Middle Bronze Age. The fragment is trapezoidal in plan, plano-convex in both profile and section and represents approximately half of the original muller. It is broken at about sixty degrees to its linear axis; its remaining length is 110 mm, its width is 153 mm, thickness 60.5 mm and weight 1497.1 g. The break is recent and probably damage from agricultural equipment. The muller was made from a split beach cobble of fine-grained pinkish granite containing crystals of tourmaline, mica, f…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Record ID: NLM-74889D
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green stone possible muller. A rounded possibly water-rolled pebble with a dull and speckled surface appearance, possibly with worn and in one case slightly concave faces, well-adapted to hold in the hand. This object was recovered as distinctively different from the local stones, and as such is probably a manuport [i.e. brought to the site by human agency]. Such stones might be retrieved as glacial erratics, and lent themselves to uses as rubbers, grinders and burnishers. They are noted particularly from contexts between the Iron Age and the Early Medieval period, though as a fi…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-71BD93
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A double-sided stone muller with a circular cup mark on each face, so partially worked into a shaft-hole implement, dating from the Bronze Age. Ovate in plan, cylindrical in profile and in section, with two convex ends. 136 mm in length, 116 mm in width, 40 mm in thickness and 1151.35 g in weight. Both faces have been ground flat and the rounded edges have been pecked, making it ideal for use as a muller or rubbing stone. The original implement would have been an almost perfect oval in plan but one of the long edges has been damaged through the secondary use of the muller as a hammer-…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2E639A
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and plano-convex in profile, with a convex upper face and a flat base. The flat, smooth base was used for rubbing, and the upper face convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is fine grained and contains muscovite or mica, tourmaline and felspars. The soft felspars would work into hollows and the hard tourmaline would stand proud of the…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-25A252
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single-sided muller or rubbing stone of fine-grained granite elvan. The muller is circular in plan, plano-convex in section and in profile. The base of the muller is flat and smooth through use as a rubbing implement and the upper face is convex so it could have been held and pushed across another stone. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is fine grained and contains inclusions of dark tourmaline and pale feldspar phenocrysts. The soft feldspar would work into hollows and the hard tourmaline would s…
Created on: Thursday 15th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-258C8B
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medium-grained megacrystic granite double-sided muller or rubbing stone. The muller is semi-circular in plan, with one rounded complete end and one broken straight edge, and rectangular in section. Both faces of the muller are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing, but one side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is medium-grained, megacrystic granite with pale feldspar inclusions varying …
Created on: Thursday 15th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-2A69F6
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A muller or rubbing stone with a cup-mark on one side, ovate in plan, sub-rectangular in profile and section. The dorsal face is flat with rounded edges and the two adjacent sides have been shaped by two central, pecked indentations to form a slight waist which enables the implement to be held comfortably in the hand. The original cobble has been split to produce a flat ventral face, resulting in an implement with a wide flat surface which would have been suitable for rubbing or grinding. A pecked indentation, or cup mark, 30 mm in diameter and 4 mm in depth has been formed at the cen…
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1BC8EF
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-rectangular fragment of a very finely grained sandstone rock. The fragment has four smooth sides. It is rounded at the top and the bottom is rough from an old break. The fragment is a pinkish/beige colour. The fragment may have been used as a rubber or muller. Such adventitious use of local erratics from glacial drift is characteristic of periods from Prehistory to the Anglo-Scandinavian period, whereafter imported stones were favoured for such uses. The item could have been used as a smoother for finishing leather or linen textiles. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early M…
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DED994
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue/grey fragment of a mudstone rock. It is a triangular shaped erratic with three smooth faces and with a remaining face that is roughly flaked and chipped.The fragment may have been used as a rubber or muller. Such adventitious use of local erratics from glacial drift is characteristic of periods from Prehistory to the Anglo-Scandinavian period, whereafter imported stones were favoured for such uses. The item could have been used as a smoother for finishing leather or linen textiles. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early Medieval, 4000 BC - AD 850. Length 57.6mm, width 56mm…
Created on: Friday 10th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-186CD3
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained muscovite granite double-sided muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with one rounded complete end and one broken end, and flat in section. Both faces of the muller are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing, but one side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is fine grained and contains muscovite or mica, tourmaline and felspars (see report below). The soft felspars would wo…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-186044
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coarse biotite granite double-sided muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and flat in section. Both faces of the muller are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing, but one side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is coarse-grained inclusion and contains biotite or black mica, felspars and quartz (see report below). The soft felspars would work into hollows and the…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2016
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Record ID: NLM-E7B47B
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone rubber. An irregular cobble of fine grained tan coloured compacted sandstone, smoothed by water which has exposed natural bedding planes, and probably also by use-wear and handling. One end is flattened and the form of this stone lends itself to a grip between thumb and forefinger if the flat face were to be used. This belongs to a series of improvised rubbers and smoothers whose currency was probably catholic, but which are especially associated with contexts dated to between the Later Iron Age and the Early Medieval period. A range of uses, for example as kitchen or dyestuff m…
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton Salmon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-9CD196
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained granite elvan or rhyolite muller or rubbing stone. The muller is sub-oval in plan and trapezoidal in profile and section. Both faces of the muller, which are not parallel, are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing. One side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. Rhyolite is a silica-rich igenous rock and usually contains feldspar and quartz crystals and is therefore similar to elvan in its composition …
Created on: Saturday 30th May 2015
Last updated: Sunday 31st May 2015
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Record ID: NLM-7DEDAA
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown fine-grained possible Sandstone muller fragment. Cobble with probably wind-blown-sand smoothing of its five irregular sides. A larger flat surface on one side may be smoothed by rubbing or grinding. The opposite side is also flat, but as a recent exposure due to the stone having split along its bedding planes. Improvised stone rubbers and grinders are particularly associated with the period between later Prehistory and the Early Medieval period, though they might of course be used before and after those dates. Suggested date: Unknown, Iron Age to Early Medieval, 800 BC - AD1100.…
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th February 2015
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Record ID: CORN-EB2904
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stone muller or rubber, sub-triangular in plan, and sub-rectangular in profile and section. The stone is derived from a schorl rock which is metasomatically altered granite composed of quartz and black tourmaline schorl. The source is likely from the margin of the Land's End Granite (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm). The upper surface and the base of the stone are both flat and polished through use, suggesting that it was likely used as a rubbing stone or muller, perhaps within a quern to grind grain. The outer edge of the stone is curved and the two other sides are broken, ex…
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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