Sentences with word «quern»

is constructed from steel fencing and weighted with querns that have fallen out of the cliffs.

This example of these grinding stones, called a saddle quern, comes from a 5,000 - to 6,000 - year - old farming site in Wales.

Saddle querns were invented as tools for grinding grain to make flour.

By the time of late Natufian culture (11 500 to 10 500 years ago), grinding slabs or querns and handstones appear in greater numbers and by the PPNA there is a marked increase in these processing tools, suggesting that dehusked grain was milled into groats or flour.

Now the ripening wheatie stood as high as his knees, and it looked as if it would be a good crop this year — not that Carl would necessarily be there to see the mummies grind it under the autumn foglamp, their bare breasts nuzzling the hot stone of their querns as they bent sweatily to the graft.

Balanced on the cliff edge, next to an Iron Age site for the manufacture of querns (millstones) and the remains of a Roman villa, and with the Port of Dover as a backdrop, Alex Hartley's massive sculpture Wall is constructed from steel fencing and weighted with querns that have fallen out of the cliffs.