An unprecedented number of rotary querns were found during excavation of Medieval and Post-medieval buildings at Cromarty. The forty querns are broadly similar in size and style. The upper stones are flat disc querns, made by dressing a slab of sedimentary rock, or occasionally a schist slab, on the upper and lower faces. The […]
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- Working Stone, Making Communities
- Vintage Stonehenge
- Ritual or Magic?
- A Late Neolithic butchery site in Orkney
- Ground stone from Isle of Man Meolithic
- Medieval Rotary Querns
- Stone discs from Cromarty Medieval Burgh, Scotland
- A Bronze Age Cemetery
- A decorated stone disc from Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
- Worked ochre from Mesolithic sites
- Cromarty Medieval Burgh Community Archaeology Project
- Expanding Horizons: Raw material use during the Late Mesolithic at Stainton West, Carlisle, Cumbria
- An incised Mesolithic bevelled pebble from Scotland
- Stone tools from an Early Iron Age souterrain at Windwick, South Ronaldsay, Orkney