22nd May 2012, 05:11 PM
Jack Wrote:I recently received a specialist report on a worked stone artefact quoting someone else as saying (I am paraphrasing to protect the innocent though) '30% of said artefacts recorded are broken, and the majority of these are broken over the socket hole showing a clear tradition of pre-burial destruction'.............goes on to link this as ritual killing of the object
Yup, he likes his ritual killings, I've got a smashed and burnt one with the same conclusion appended to the report :face-approve:
Surely most querns (flat ones anyway/millstones) are going to break across the socket during use, its the weakest point :face-thinks: