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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 670734
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670734
NJ80SE 20 c. 889 023.
The upper and lower stones of a rotary quern about 18 1/2 ins in diameter were found (possibly about 1870) in a piece of 'mossy ground' in the hollow below West Cults. They are now the property of the author, and are to be presented to the Aberdeen Public Museum.
J A Henderson 1890
There is an unrecorded rotary quern in the Aberdeen Public Museum which may be the one recorded above. No other information was discovered.
Visited by OS (JLD) 31 July 1952.
This quern has not been identified in the collection of either Marischal Museum or Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 September 2003.
