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<< Text Pages >> Quakertown Bedrock Mortar - Museum in United States in New England

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 07 January 2007  Page Views: 7660

MuseumsSite Name: Quakertown Bedrock Mortar
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.664 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: New England Type: Museum
 Nearest Village: Quakertown, NJ
Latitude: 40.565900N  Longitude: 74.942W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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3Ordinary
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1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Display in Hunterdon County New Jersey.
A "bedrock" mortar for grinding seeds or grain. This find was not in an area known for prehistoric settlement, but given that the ground depression is in a 600 lb creek boulder, it seems unlikely to have a historic origin (a gate pivot, for example).

The category of "museum" is used very loosely here. The stone was removed to a local farm market and is likely to go on display at the Township Fire Department.
The location given is the farm where the stone may be seen.
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Article on recent discovery Re: Quakertown Bedrock Mortar by Aluta on Wednesday, 10 January 2007
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Is there a link for this? Is this Pennsylvania or somewhere else?

Some people I know say there are a lot of mortars, some of them bedrock mortars around here is you know where to look.
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    Article on recent discovery Re: Quakertown Bedrock Mortar by bat400 on Thursday, 11 January 2007
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    The original article in the Hunterdon County Democrat has disappeared. The quote is all I have. However, the facts are (from my notes) that a creek near Quakertown, New Jersey, (West of NYC, toward the PA stateline) had a large rock with an unusual ground depression in it. The locals (mentioned in the quote) believed it to be a bedrock motar and got some confirmation of their hunch from local University researchers. Because the area where it was found was described as pretty heavily trafficed, and the news accounts of similar motars being stolen (see previous Portal listed news items from California,) a decision was made with the property owner to remove the 600 lb. rock to a public location with more oversight. They wrestled the stone out of the creek and took it to a farm market (Peterson Farm) in Quakertown, where it can be seen during opening hours. The lat/long location is for the address of the farm. They have plans to display the rock with mortar at the township firehouse eventually.
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Article on recent discovery Re: Quakertown Bedrock Mortar by bat400 on Wednesday, 10 January 2007
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Hunterdon Co. Democrat. Thursday, December 07, 2006

By Rachael Brickman

"At first glance, the 600-pound stone with a rounded depression on its top doesn't look like much. Few passersby would have identified it as anything more than a strangely shaped boulder as it sat in a stream in the Quakertown area of Franklin Township. But with keen eyes and a shared love of local history, Robert McGeary and Lora Jones aren't like most passersby. The two spotted the possible artifact and believe it to be an old food-grinding stone, the Native American equivalent of a mortar and pestle, only without the pestle.

McGeary, former mayor of Franklin Township, and Jones, the township historian, had been researching an area known as Indian Peak as a possible name for a new road nearby, when Jones remembered having seen a partially hollowed-out rock nearby. The two went and found the big stone partially submerged in a stream, an unnamed tributary of the Capoolong Creek. McGeary identified it as a potential Native American artifact, possibly thousands of years old. "
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