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.
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 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 broom was rushing around the room sweeping the floor of its own accord and the quern was grinding the corn without human assistance.
A broken or disused quern therefore can be seen as symbolic of death.
The pottery was painted with pigments that had been mixed with glass frit and ground in a wet quern.
The remains of a quern for grinding grain was also found within this central area, as was a single carved rock.
Thus, this year is the terminus post quern for the last revision of the chapter.
