A saddle quern was used for grinding grains and seeds. This saddle quern was found in Orkney. It could date any time between 4000 and 0 BC.
The lower quernstone has been worn to a small hollow from the action of rubbing with a rubbing stone.
The earliest type of quern, the saddle quern, was used from around 3800 BC. They were simple to use: the grains or seeds were placed on the lower stone, and a rubbing stone was pushed backwards and forwards over it.
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