Grinding stone
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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1933/833
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- grinding stone
- Simple Name
- quern
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
