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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2016-09-14 15:31:36 |
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muller (profile) |
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| Description |
English: Fine-grained muscovite granite double-sided muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with one rounded complete end and one broken end, and flat in section. Both faces of the muller are flat and smooth as they were used for rubbing, but one side may have originally been convex so that it could be held and pushed across a base for grinding. 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 muscovite or mica, tourmaline and felspars (see report below). The soft felspars 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. 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 megacrystic granite muller with small quartz and feldspar megacrysts, which has been derived from a river cobble, excavated from Scarcewater, St Stephen, on page 127, fig.64, no.270, which is dated from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1100 BC. Jones (2002) illustrates a similar example excavated from Callestick on page 29, fig.12, no.94 which dates from the Later Bronze Age, c.1100-700BC. Nowakowski (1991) illustrates a similar elvan example excavated from Trethellan on page 142, fig.57, no.88, which dates from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Cornwall | ||
| Date | between 2150 BC and 700 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 803243 Old ref: CORN-186CD3 Filename: Sep16finds099.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/582832 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/582832/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/803243 |
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