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  • LAURIE STANLEY-BLACKWELL The Daily Grind: The

    One of the most noteworthy physical artifacts to make the trip from Scotland to Nova Scotia was the rotary quern. This phenomenon reflected in part the hand mill’s “late survival” in the

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  • Rotary querns from B r-ko ṭ-ghwa ṇḍ ai (Khyber ... - EASAA

    2019.5.29  Rotary quern or hand-mill is a simple but successful device consisting of two circular stones fit together with an upper mobile element, called the handstone, rotating over

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  • (PDF) Lava rotary querns of 'Iron Age type' in Roman times

    A survey of these quernstones reveals several examples found to the southeast of this region. Even after the typical Roman hand mills became the dominant form, some ‘vintage’ Iron Age

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  • Rotary Querns and the Presentation of the Past. In Stone

    This paper explores the place of the rotary quern in contemporary Middle Eastern culture and some of the issues involved in using unprovenanced, and thus undated, ground stone

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  • Querns and quern stones. Cambridg - cafg

    2019.4.22  The stone used for a quern stone needs to be both resistant to wear and durable. Its surface must not wear and become smooth too quickly plus it needs to be capable

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  • Querns from the Bronze Age to the Eleventh Century AD:

    The saddle quern, used in a back-and-forth motion, was introduced to Britain during the Neolithic period and continued in use through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age when the rotary

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  • Lava rotary querns of ‘Iron Age type’ in Roman times

    2020.12.15  Most of the ‘Iron Age type’ quernstones of Early Imperial times are known from the Low Countries where they go under the name of Brillerij-type. A survey of these

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  • Rotary Querns and the Presentation of the Past

    This paper explores the place of the rotary quern in contemporary Middle Eastern culture and some of the issues involved in using unprovenanced, and thus undated, ground stone

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  • Feeding the World: The first milling stones - Mills Archive

    2021.6.21  The rotary quern comprises two circular stones, one of which is rotated above the other by means of a projecting handle. Grain is fed into a central hole or eye through the

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  • From Quern to Computer: The history of flour milling

    2016.9.6  The rotary quern comprises two circular stones, one of which is rotated above the other by means of a projecting handle. Grain is fed into a central hole or eye through the upper

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  • The widening use of Lodsworth stone: Neolithic to Romano-British quern ...

    2011.1.1  complete Iron Age style rotary quern of Lodsworth stone . which is unregistered but likely to have been found locally. A short way up the river W indrush, an undated rotary .

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  • Beautiful Neolithic and Iron Age querns from Norway. On

    2015.12.13  In the Migration and Merovingian periods (c. 400-800 AD), the form of the rotary hand quern tends to become more standardised and somewhat “lighter”, with the lower and upper stones forming a pair of rather slim stones, so well-known from the Roman period throughout the Mediterranean and Continental Europe, and from the Viking Age onward up north.

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  • Querns from the Bronze Age to the Eleventh Century AD:

    This paper describes the stone types that were used, the chronology of this local quern manufacture, what form the querns took, and how far they were distributed during different periods of our past. PATTERNS OF QUERN USE. In order to understand local quern production, it is important to appreciate the context of resource procurement in which ...

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  • Rotary Querns and the Presentation of the Past. In Stone

    2019.2.6  This paper explores the place of the rotary quern in contemporary Middle Eastern culture and some of the issues involved in using unprovenanced, and thus undated, ground stone artefacts to ...

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  • Shaffrey, R. and Roe, F. 2011 The Widening use of Lodsworth Stone ...

    PDF On Jan 1, 2011, Ruth Shaffrey published Shaffrey, R. and Roe, F. 2011 The Widening use of Lodsworth Stone: Neolithic to Romano-British Quern Distribution. In D.F. Williams and D.P.S. Peacock ...

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  • Quern Medieval London Objects 3 Medieval London

    The quern is an ancient tool used for grinding grain and other foods, such as pepper. The British Museum houses querns dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and there are dozens of examples of Romano-British querns. ... which placed one round stone on top of another and rotated the upper stone to grind the grain in between. Rotary querns ...

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  • BBC - A History of the World - Object : Rotary Disc Quern

    2015.7.31  This rotary quern of the disc type is made from a hard stone called schist. It was used to grind grain into flour for domestic purposes. The two circular stones fit together with the top mobile ...

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  • Lava rotary querns of ‘Iron Age type’ in Roman times

    2020.12.15  In Mayen the production of lava rotary querns of ‘Iron Age type’ continued from the late La Tène period into Julio-Claudian times. The lower quernstone possessed a domed grinding face and the upper stone was double concave in section. While the surfaces of these querns are usually pecked, late examples show a segmented radial grooving on the grinding

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  • The Life and Death of Querns: The Deposition and Use

    Finally, there are specific studies relating to the Iron Age pottery chronology for Northamptonshire, the date of introduction of the rotary quern in the Midlands, and a consideration of how the growing use of the rotary quern, with its greater productive capacity, may have led to an increase in the size (volume) of pottery storage jars.

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  • Rotary Quern - National Museums Liverpool

    Upper mobile stone (handstone) of a rotary quern used for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials, including grain. The central hole (the hopper) has a diameter of 42 mm. There are three smaller handle slots cut near the outer edge that enabled the handstone to be rotated. Thought by the donor to be from Egypt but this provenance has not been investigated.

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  • (PDF) Getting rotary: introduction of rotary quern stones in

    The rotary quern stone made of granite form Kafir Kala (Tajikistan) published by both above mentioned scholars has only 34cm in diameter with the height of 3.5-4cm and diameter of the hole reaching 5cm, while the group of querns from the Kalai-Kafirnigan consists of rotary querns typically 30119 40cm in diameter with four of them reaching 40 ...

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  • LAURIE STANLEY-BLACKWELL The Daily Grind: The

    2020.5.18  a two-handled granite quern (each stone weigh - ing 40 kg [90 lbs], upper stone 50 cm [20 in] in diameter, lower stone 56 cm [22 in] in diameter); he became the first settler at Taylor’s Settlement in the Musquodoboit Valley (Piers 1928). One . Fig. 1. Quern brought from . Barra, Scotland, to Cape Breton, ca. 1820s Credit: John Blackwell

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  • Rotary quern - Oxford Reference

    2024.11.7  The two stones are held in register by the central spindle, which also serves as a chute down which grain can be poured, so that it is taken between the stones near the centre of the quern and gradually moves outwards as it become finer in texture. A socket in the upper stone allows the insertion of a handle to make turning the quern easier.

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  • Quern-stone - Wikiwand

    Quern-stones are stone tools for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials, especially for various types of grains. They are used in pairs. The lower stationary stone of early examples is called a saddle quern, while the upper mobile stone is called a muller, rubber, or handstone.The upper stone was moved in a back-and-forth motion across the saddle quern.

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  • Rotary Hand Quern (Grinding Stone) - The Pirate Shop

    Our Rotary Hand Quern is inspired by quern stones in the Whitworth Museum collection in Dumfries, Scotland. Querns like this have been used since ancient times to grind grain, and were carried by the Roman Legionaries on campaign. This working replica is great for re-enactment and Living History. The grain is poured into the hole at the top as ...

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  • Rotary quern; Medieval; Castle Sween Historic Environment

    Quern stones were used for grinding grain into flour. They were used in pairs and one stone would be placed on top of another. The bottom stone remained stationary. Grain would be poured through a central hole in the top stone, which was then rotated, enabling the

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  • The grinding stones of the Greek colony of Olbia

    Moreover, the sole hand quern fragment among the Coupry finds (108) (Fig. 13) suggests that this type played a marginal role when compared to hopper mills and rotary querns. The practical absence of quern upper stones is particularly noteworthy as between the founding of the colony and the middle of the 3rd century BC (a period known for the ...

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  • LAURIE STANLEY-BLACKWELL The Daily Grind: The

    a two-handled granite quern (each stone weigh - ing 40 kg [90 lbs], upper stone 50 cm [20 in] in diameter, lower stone 56 cm [22 in] in diameter); he became the first settler at Taylor’s Settlement in the Musquodoboit Valley (Piers 1928). One . Fig. 1. Quern brought from . Barra, Scotland, to Cape Breton, ca. 1820s Credit: John Blackwell

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  • The Rotary Querns from the Society of Antiquaries'

    The Rotary Querns from the Society of Antiquaries' Excavations at Silchester, 1890–1909 - Volume 34 ... is referred to in the text, this should be prefixed with the museum code 1995.90. The 79 querns comprise 34 upper stones, 42 lower stones, and 3 unknowns. Type Articles. ... An Imported Rotary Quern Design in South-Western England ...

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