File:Unknown grooved stone fragment, possible whetstone or quern (FindID 840578).jpg

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Unknown grooved stone fragment, possible whetstone or quern
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Somerset County Council, Wil Partridge, 2017-04-10 12:09:22
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Unknown grooved stone fragment, possible whetstone or quern
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Fragment of a worked stone of uncertain date and function, possibly a whetstone as it appears too thin for a quern. The stone is a well cemented and sorted medium to fine grain sandstone. The fragment is roughly triangular with breaks on all sides and flat top and bottom faces. Across one face is a deep, straight, semi-circular sectioned groove running from one side to the other. On the other face is a shallow, curved, similarly sectioned groove which deepens from one edge to the other and may indicate the piece was used with a rotation action. The fragment is 78.7mm long, and a maximum of 81.6mm wide and varies from 21.9 to 24.8mm thick; it weighs 195 grams.

It is not a local rock but maybe Devonian (D. Parsons pers comm) and traded fairly locally. Hand turned rotary querns were used from the Middle Iron Age into the early Post Medieval period. A Roman, Medieval or Post Medieval date would be in keeping with surrounded material. If the curved groove is an indication of rotary use then it was thinner towards the outer edge, consistant with a rotary quern.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 43 and 1800
Accession number
FindID: 840578
Old ref: SOM-23470E
Filename: som23470e.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/610696
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/610696/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/840578
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