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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2017-09-19 11:30:00 |
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muller (base) |
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| Description |
English: A single-sided muller or rubbing stone of fine-grained granite elvan. The muller is circular in plan, plano-convex in section and in profile. The base of the muller is flat and smooth through use as a rubbing implement and the upper face is convex so it could have been held and pushed across another stone. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour. The granite is fine grained and contains inclusions of dark tourmaline and pale feldspar phenocrysts. The soft feldspar would work into hollows and the hard tourmaline would stand proud of the surface, thus allowing a shearing action to cut and grind the grain. Both surfaces are marked with several red-brown linear 'stripes' through contact with the plough. The shape of the muller suggests that it was made from a beach cobble from the Land's End Granite outcrop.
Jones & Taylor (2010) illustrate a similar, although double-sided, muller of porphytic elvan, derived from a river cobble, excavated from Scarcewater, St Stephen, on page 127, fig.64, no.253, which is dated from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1100 BC. Jones (2002) illustrates a similar, but broken elvan muller excavated from Callestick on page 32, fig.13, no.95 which dates from the Later Bronze Age, c.1100-700 BC. Nowakowski (1991) illustrates two similar rubbing stones, one of elvan and one of fine-grained granite containing 'nests' of black tourmailne, excavated from Trethellan, Newquay, on page 142, fig.57, nos.88-89, which date from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Cornwall | ||
| Date | between 2350 BC and 700 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 852820 Old ref: CORN-25A252 Filename: DSCN5498.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/630197 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/630197/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/852820 |
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