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Rh with a stone rolling-pin. Such mealing-stones are also in use in South America. They have been occasionally found in Britain, and the annexed figure shows a pair found in a hut-circle at Ty Mawr, in the island of Holyhead. Others have been found in Anglesea. Similar specimens have been obtained in Cambridgeshire and Cornwall, and Mr. Tindall had a pair found near Bridlington. A mealing-stone with the muller was found in Ehenside Tarn, Cumberland. I have myself found a muller at Osbaston, Leicestershire. A pair of stones from the Fens 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.

Fig. 170.—Holyhead.

The same form of mill is found also in Ireland, and not improbably remained in occasional use until a comparatively late period. Fynes Moryson 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, near Salisbury, which are not improbably of post-Roman date; and in the British Museum is one found near Macclesfield.