Cox Green, River Wear, Querns

HER Number:
4600

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Cox Green, River Wear, Querns

Place:
Cox Green

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Grinding Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Quern

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Two Weardale gritstone discs were found on the south side of the River Wear in 1995. One was 17.5 inches in diameter, 3.75 inches thick and was roughly tooled. The other was 18 inches in diameter and 4 inches thick, with very rough cross tooling and a secondary hourglass hole pierced towards the edge, as though its secondary use was as a weight. Both appear to be base quern stones of medieval date. They remained in the finder’s possession at Shiney Row.

Easting:
338

Northing:
563

Grid Reference:
NZ338563

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4600 >> Pers. Comm. C. Hart, 1995, Arbeia Museum