File:Mortar (FindID 481109).jpg

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Mortar
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All rights reserved, Amy Downes, 2012-01-12 10:20:32
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Mortar
Description
English: A carved stone bowl, possibly a mortar used for grinding food, of uncertain date. The stone is irregularly shaped; sub D shaped in plan, and the bowl is circular.

Mortars or "creeing troughs" would have been used with a pestle for removing the husks from grain before cooking. Post Medieval examples often have distinctive shapes such as WILT-84FE96. Some examples can be seen in situ in the kitchens of historic houses. In the Yorkshire Pennines, such mortars were frequently highly decorated and individualised. An example is SWYOR-052CE2. Plain examples like the one recorded here are much harder to date. Parallels include LANCUM-F97686 and NCL-33B4C1 which could be Roman to Post Medieval.

It is also possible that the bowl had a different function; perhaps as a lamp, a plague bowl or since it is from near a church, a piscina or stoop. However, the domestic function is most likely as all large houses would have had a mortar.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 43 and 1700
Accession number
FindID: 481109
Old ref: SWYOR-EB38D4
Filename: bowl 003.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/363729
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/363729/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/481109
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 16 November 2020)
Object location53° 43′ 57″ N, 1° 12′ 32.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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