Find Spot record 0020000000 - NEAR SIX LORDS INN

Summary

Quernstone of uncertain date found in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

'A HANDMILL FOR GRINDING CORN, UNEARTHED BY MY UNCLE NEAR SIX LORDS INN.THE IRON SPINDLE...THROUGH THE TOP STONE, PITCHED IN THE CENTRE OF THE BOTTOM, HAD PERISHED. IT WAS A SMALL 1-HANDED AFFAIR BUT HAD DONE MUCH SERVICE AS SEEN BY THE WORN GROOVES' (B1). INN NOW DEMOLISHED BUT ON OS MAP AT NGR(B2)

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC6110 Bibliographic reference: HARRIS J 1907 GREAT HORWOOD,BUCKS,ENGLAND (COPY IN BUCKS COLLECTION,COUNTY LIBRARY).
  • <2>SBC9405 Map: MR.E.J.BULL,1974,AND OS 1958 1:10560 MAP.

Location

Grid reference SP 77070 32310 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • QUERN (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1798 AD?)

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  • Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Jul 27 2004 10:41AM

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