Grinding stone
- Description
- A grinding stone was used with a saddle quern to grind grain into flour. The grinding of grain was a very important activity to the new farmers in the Neolithic, and would have been carried out each day. This stone was discovered at Hembury in Devon.
- Accession Loan No.
- 139/1935/1566
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- grinding stone
- Simple Name
- quern
- Full Name
- grinding stone, rubbing stone
- Dimensions
- whole length 150 mm; whole W 120 mm; whole depth 55 mm
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- stone
- Collector / Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Collection Site Name
- Hembury (1934 and 1935)
- Collection Town
- Payhembury
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
