Incomplete upper stone of a quern broken into two parts. [AB [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Incomplete upper stone of a quern broken into two parts. [AB [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]
Long description: Incomplete upper stone of a quern broken into two parts. The stone is an uneven grey and pink in colour with a rough surface. The stones form a hemispherical almost complete circle with a central perforation, there is a section missing. The parts are sub-triangular in form, with a flat base, two flat sides (one is the break) and a third curved face. The larger piece has a perforation. [AB [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Cambridgeshire
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector John Evans; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: Before 1887
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1887
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions: Length: max 270 mm total, Length: max 260 mm larger fragment, Length: max 175 mm smaller fragment, Width: max 145 mm smaller fragment, Height: max 85 mm smaller fragment, Height: max 88 mm larger fragment, Height: max 88 mm total, Width: max 155 mm larger fragment, Width: max 245 mm total
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.68.488

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