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Bronze Age muller (profile)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2007-12-05 23:03:14
Title
Bronze Age muller (profile)
Description
English: Fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and plano-convex in section. The muller is flat and smooth on the face that was used for rubbing, and convex on the opposite face, where it was held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour.

The elvan is a fine grained granitic inclusion and contains pale pink felspars and black quartz. The soft felspars would work into hollows and the hard quartz would stand proud of the surface, thus allowing a shearing action to cut and grind the grain. There are also random black patches of tourmaline and a distinctive circular tourmaline vein, but not enough to suggest that it was reoccurring within the granite. The shape of the muller suggests that it was made from a beach cobble.

Jones (2002) illustrates a similar example excavated from Callestick on page 29, Fig.13, No.95 which is dated to the Later Bronze Age, c.1100-700 BC.

Nowakowski (1991) illustrates a similar elvan example excavated from Trethellan on page 142, Fig.57, No.89, which dates from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 1500 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 202618
Old ref: CORN-71FB50
Filename: Novemberfinds 015.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/158568
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/158568/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/202618
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