Stone Quern for Grinding Cereal

Made:: Unknown in unknown place

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Stone quern (igneous rock?) with two stone pestles for grinding cereal, European?

Details

Category:: Nutrition & Food Technology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1981-443

Materials:: stone and complete

Measurements:: overall: 108 x 225 x 230 mm
pestle (1 of a pair): 38 x 38 mm
weight: 8kg
weight: 17.63707lbs

type:: querns

credit:: On loan from the Wellcome Trust

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.