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Saddle querns, which are a slab of stone slightly hollow on the surface in which corn can be ground using a large pebble, have been recovered from Ardnave, Kilellan and Manitoba.
Luch would be set to turn the quern to grind the oatmeal, and then she'd be sent to fetch hay, peat, and water.
Amongst the artifacts recorded are a plain bronze pin and a jewelled pin, four arrow heads, two saddle querns, and large quantities of Early Bronze Age flint.
At that time rice was brought into cultivation, and grain was crushed with a wheel in the quern.
At the other end, the terminus post quern is less clear (and less crucial).
Thus, this year is the terminus post quern for the last revision of the chapter.
The remains of a quern for grinding grain was also found within this central area, as was a single carved rock.
The pottery was painted with pigments that had been mixed with glass frit and ground in a wet quern.
A broken or disused quern therefore can be seen as symbolic of death.
The broom was rushing around the room sweeping the floor of its own accord and the quern was grinding the corn without human assistance.
The quern was an important tool in the household, and the quernstones were serial products aimed at larger markets and produced for people from different levels of the society.
The process of quern production has left behind considerable evidence in the area of the crags, including work flooring and trackways as well as many abandoned querns.
The handstone of a rotary quern is much heavier than that of saddle quern and provides the necessary weight for the grinding of unmalted grain into flour.
