Quernstones and Honestones from the 1986 Excavations at the 8th and 9th Century Saxon Site at Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London
Author(s): D F Williams
Identification of a number of quern fragments of a nepheline-tephrite rock from the Mayen-Niedermendig areaof the Eifel Hills of Germany, a region well-known in both Roman and Saxon times for supplying quernstones and millstones. Also present was a ?quernstone fragmentof grey glauconitic limestone, probably from the Hythe Beds of Kent. Two honestones were noted: one from a piece of Kentish Ragstone belonging to Ellis' Type IVB classification, and the other a small rounded fragment of fine-grained sandstone. Similar fragments of Mayen lava and two types of lime- stone mentioned above are also present at the nearby Saxon site of Jubilee Hall, Covent Garden.
- Report Number:
- 15/1987
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 3
- Keywords:
- Quern Stone Stone, Worked
