Some ornamentally carved upper stones of querns, one of them with spiral and leaf-shaped patterns upon it, much like those on the bronze ornaments of the "late-Celtic" Period, have been discovered in Anglesea.[1]
Fig. 180.—Balmaclellan.
Querns of green sandstone are stated, by Sir R. Colt Hoare,[2] to be numerous in British villages and pit-dwellings in Wiltshire, as indeed they are in other counties,[3] though formed of various kinds of grit. They rarely occur in barrows, though burnt granite querns have been found with burnt bones in cromlechs in Jersey.[4]
Some observations on querns by the Rev. Dr. A. Hume, are published in the Archæologia Cambrensis.[5] As these utensils belong, for the most part, to Roman and post-Roman times, I have thought it needless to enter into any more minute description of their forms, or of the circumstances under which they have been found.
