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260 Some ornamentally carved upper stones of querns, one of them with spiral and leaf-shaped patterns upon it, much like those on the bronze ornaments of the "late-Celtic" Period, have been discovered in Anglesea.

Fig. 180.—Balmaclellan.

Querns of green sandstone are stated, by Sir R. Colt Hoare, to be numerous in British villages and pit-dwellings in Wiltshire, as indeed they are in other counties, though formed of various kinds of grit. They rarely occur in barrows, though burnt granite querns have been found with burnt bones in cromlechs in Jersey.

Some observations on querns by the Rev. Dr. A. Hume, are published in the Archæologia Cambrensis. As these utensils belong, for the most part, to Roman and post-Roman times, I have thought it needless to enter into any more minute description of their forms, or of the circumstances under which they have been found.