Record ID: SF-385927
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of Hertfordshire puddingstone quern, of probably first century, Roman date. It is a solid domed shape, 84mm in height at the centre, and 50% of the stone is present, with an estimated diameter of 340mm. The quern weighs 5830g. At the centre of the broken section of the quern is the funnel-shaped aperture, through which the grain would have been fed, 44.2mm in diameter at the top, approximately 15mm in the centre and 31.5mm at the bottom of the quern. Traces of wear on the underside of the quern show that it had been used. Recent work at Heybridge suggests that puddingstone quer…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Wilbraham', grid reference and parish protected.