Bishopwearmouth, Low Row, medieval quern

HER Number:
74

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth, Low Row, medieval quern

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Grinding Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Quern

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
When the Hat and Feather Inn, Low Row, was rebuilt, a stretch of paved roadway was found about twelve feet below street level. Within a few feet of the ancient pavement was found a quern of millstone grit, fifteen inches wide and six inches in diameter, with its bowl eight inches wide and three-and-a-half inches deep. At the bottom of the bowl is an iron spike or pivot, by which the upper stone was kept in position as it was turned round in the process of grinding the corn or grain. The quern is considered to be medieval in origin and is now in the Sunderland Museum collection.

Easting:
3922

Northing:
5694

Grid Reference:
NZ39225694

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 74 >> J. Robinson, 1907, Roman Road and Remains at Bishopwearmouth, Antiquities of Sunderland,Vol. V (for 1904), p. 5-6 Mention Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, paved roadway: Medieval quern