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General Forum >> Possible saddle quern found near Penmaenmawr
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Possible saddle quern found near Penmaenmawr |
Andy B
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|  Posted 27-09-2011 at 18:23
Angie P writes: I found this at the foot of the Penmaenmawr Mountain the site of the Braich y Dinas fort whilst looking at the various remains of small stone huts. The quern was by the side of one of them. I was just wondering how old it would be, if you can date them?
No excavation has ever been done in these woods. When Harold Hughes did excavations on Braich y Dinas in the 1920s he found only bits of a quern. I like to think that once the people living on the mountain were no longer under threat they moved down into the more fertile woods and bought the quern with them.
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Angie x
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2011-09-27 18:24 ]
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Andy B
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| Posted 01-10-2011 at 12:16
Bump, anyone know?
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davidmorgan
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| Posted 01-10-2011 at 18:36
Difficult to tell. You would need to see the upper surface.
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| Posted 04-10-2011 at 10:07
I'll go back and take another photo of the top surface then.
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| Posted 04-10-2011 at 13:20
It's interesting that on the Coflein page it says:
"All dateable objects can be assigned to the period AD 100-400, and no evidence was found to indicate more than one period of construction.[...] The site produced saddle querns, but none of the rotary type".
And "the assumption of a single phase of construction and occupation based on the recovered finds is very likely to be inaccurate."
One would have thought that by "AD 100-400" most people would have been using rotary querns which were probably introduced to the British Isles in the Iron Age about 500 years previously. So, I'm guessing that if this stone is a saddle quern, then it might be from the Bronze Age.
I'm no expert on querns, I might be totally wrong, but I doubt if such a wealthy sounding post-Iron Age settlement would still be using saddle querns.
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