Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
Society of Antiquaries of London
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* See a representation of this method of working a quern, though with a slight variation from that described, in an illustration taken from a MS. of the fourteenth century, engraved in Die Burg Tannenhttrg und ihre Ausgrahungen, by Dr. J. von Hefner and Dr. J. W. Wolf. 1860. PL xi. Digitized by Google Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester, Hants, in 1897. 117 the mouth and flaps the flat doughy cake against the wall of the oven, where it sticks. When baked it generally brings ...away some grains of charcoal or grit with it."* From time to time fragments of pots sunk in the floors of what were subordinate chambers in the houses at Silchester have been occasionally found, and some of these might have been used as ovens in the manner described. The ordinary dolium, with a section of the top cut off, would have answered this purpose. But of this we cannot be sure, as vessels sunk in floors might be employed for very various purposes. Some few words of description may here be given of the querns found at Silchester.
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