Gordon Cottage, Abernethy
Quern
Site Name Gordon Cottage, Abernethy
Classification Quern
Alternative Name(s) Station Road
Canmore ID 77396
Site Number NO11NE 107
NGR NO 1885 1655
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/77396
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Abernethy (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO11NE 107 1885 1655
The upper stone of an Iron Age rotary 'beehive' quern was found in the garden of Gordon Cottage, Station Road, Abernethy. The stone is 290mm in diameter with a wide hopper at 20 degrees from the vertical.
Rotation was by means of a handle projecting radially, at one time from a shallow groove made in the underside of the stone, and at another from a deeper round socket in the side of the stone. The grinding surface of the stone is flat. The quern is of a metamorphic rock containing mica, the upper surface shows tool-marks and slight damage round the edge of the stone.
Donated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (Acc No 1992.651).
M D King 1992.
This quernstone (PMAG 1992.651) is in Perth Museum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 26 November 1996.