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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| QUERNS FOUND HERE [Eastfield] | Querns found here Querns found here Hand Mills |
Adam Sim Esqr William Handyside Esqr Dr [Doctor] Sommers Alexander Gladstone (Eastfield) |
034.13 | There were found at this place (on the farm of Eastfield) a few days ago (March 1859) some splendid specimens of the Quern, or ancient hand mill, one of them is composed of granite finely polished, and fluted at the sides, and the hole in the top for the corn, and in the side for the stick, are very neatly cut; if not added to Mr Sim's museum, they may be seen at the farm house of Eastfield, They were found 8 or 10 inches below the surface of the ground, and some charred wood and freestone scales were turned up at the same place which would lead to the suggestion, that corn had been ground and bread baked on the spot; There are no signs, or remembrance of a house being in any way near this place, which is in a small hollow at the S.W. base of a small knoll, which was formerly a plantation the trees of which are now cut down and the ground is under cultivation, There is a faint trace through the ploughed ground of an artificial formation of an ovate shape, which Mr Gladstone thinks are the remains of a Camp, on the East side where the ground has not been ploughed, but is planted with trees, there.. |
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