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Decorated querns and millstones of any date are extremely rare, with only four such Roman millstones discovered from around a total of 20,000 nationwide, said Steve Sherlock, Highways England's archaeology lead for the A14.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2021

They have dug up bronze ornaments, fragments of a Bronze Age trumpet and some well-preserved saddle querns, the primitive hand mills with which ancient man ground his grain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In these ruins, however, we saw some ancient utensils, or querns, supposed to have been used for crushing corn.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

Sir John Evans does not reject the pear-shaped object of shale, “a pendant,” found in a Scottish site, and associated with querns, and an iron axe, and cup and ring stones. 

From The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Lang, Andrew