found in Ehenside Tarn,[984] Cumberland. I have myself found a muller at Osbaston, Leicestershire. A pair of stones from the Fens[985] is in the museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Some large blocks of flint, having a flat face bruised all over by hammering, have also been found in the Fens, and may have served as mealing-stones. [Illustration: Fig. 170.—Holyhead.] The same form of mill is found also in Ireland,[986] and not improbably remained in occasional use until a comparatively late period. Fynes Moryson[987] mentions having seen in Cork “young maides, stark naked, grinding corne with certaine stones, to make cakes thereof;” and the form of the expression seems to point to something different from a hand-mill or quern, which at that time was in common use in England. The name of saddle-quern has been given to this form of grinding apparatus. In the Blackmore Museum is one from the pit-dwellings at Highfield,[988] near Salisbury, which are not improbably of post-Roman date; and in the British Museum is one found near Macclesfield. |252| They are also known in Scotland. One of granite, found near Wick,[989] is in the National Museum at Edinburgh; as is also another, 20 inches by 12 inches, with a rubber 12 inches by 8 inches, found in a cave near Cullen, Banffshire.[990] They likewise occur in Shetland.[991] Mr. J. W. Cursiter has a long narrow muller with a curved back, in which are five grooves to receive the fingers, so as to give it the appearance of being a fragment of an ammonite. Saddle-querns of the same character occur also in France.[992] I have a small example from Chateaudun. One from Chassemy[993] (Aisne) has been figured. Some were likewise found in the Genista Cave at Gibraltar.[994] They are common in West Prussia and in the Island of Rügen, as well as in Scandinavia generally. A German saddle-quern, from the ancient cemetery at Monsheim, has been engraved by Lindenschmit.[995] Others are mentioned by Klemm.[996] MM. Siret have also found them in their explorations in Spain. It will have been observed, in the instances I have cited, that the movable muller or grinding-stone is not spherical, but elongated; but what is possibly the more ancient form approached more closely to a pestle and mortar in character, and consisted of a bed-stone with a slight concavity in it, and a more or less spherical stone for a pounder. * * * * * A grinding-stone of granite, with a cavity, apparently for bruising grain by a globular stone, was found in Cornwall,[997] and undressed slabs with concavities of the size and shape of an ordinary soup-plate, are of frequent occurrence in the Hebrides.[998] Others have been found in company with stone balls, in the ancient habitations in Anglesea.