The food contains the grit from the quern stones and the husks of the rough unengineered wheat used to make the bread. |
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The foregoer of a mill was a quern, first moved by the power of water and later by the power of wind. |
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On a more secular level, stone was used for a number of purposes, the most widespread being the manufacture of quern stones and millstones in water-mills. |
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There is the site of a large Iron Age roundhouse containing a saddle quern at Linkataing in north west Eday. |
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The grinding of the grain was done with a grindstone called a Rotary Quern, or a Hand Quern if you were poorer. |
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