| 11. | Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron Age.
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| 12. | Querns and mortars are types of these crushing devices.
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| 13. | The saddle quern dates from the Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age period.
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| 14. | A broken or disused quern therefore can be seen as symbolic of death.
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| 15. | In the meantime, Martin Querns is named as his replacement as warden.
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| 16. | A stone Iron Age grain millstone ( quern ) was found close by.
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| 17. | A saddle quern was also found in the cairn.
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| 18. | Bosner retrieved the quern with a rope tied through a hole in the stone.
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| 19. | As a result, Unit Manager Martin Querns is fired and McManus is rehired.
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| 20. | Quern stone fragments, hearths and Ubaid pottery were discovered during the first excavation.
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