Question

b) What are saddle querns? What were they made of?

Answer 1

Saddle Quern is stone tools used for grinding varieties of material with ones hand. It is produced by rocking or rolling the handstone using parallel motions (i.e., pushing and pulling the handstone), which forms a shape looking like a saddle. They were roughly made of hard, gritty, igneous rock or sandstone and mostly show signs of hard usage. As their bases are usually convex, they must have been set in the earth or in mud to prevent their rocking.