Mortar bowl
Stone bowls for grinding and mixing food have been used throughout history and their design changes little over time. This unusually grand example was discovered in a garden in Exeter and collected by a local antiquarian. Originally it would have been used in the kitchen of a large medieval house or institution.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 108/1920/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Jones, Pitman, Mr
- Material
- stonequartzite
- Common Name
- mortar bowl
- Simple Name
- mortar
- Period Classification
- Medieval (1200-1500)