Pettinain Knocking Stone

Pre-ex photo of pit

Scott Jacobson of Archaeological Heritage Services Ltd has identified a large hollow stone vessel during evaluation trenching conducted in advance of a housing development at Pettinain, South Lanarkshire. This vessel, the base of which was missing, may represent a broken or worn knocking stone, used in the processing of cereal. The stone was found within the fill of a large pit measuring some 4m across by 1.4m deep, which was also found to contain green glaze and brown stoneware pottery, along with glass and clay pipe fragments.

Possible knocking stone

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