Rubbing Stone

This stone would have been used along with a Saddle Quern to grind corn to make flour. It comes from Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare and dates from the Late Neolithic\Early Bronze Age period.

Ref: 1937:2775

National Museum of Ireland, Irish Antiquities Division Collection
Neolithic Collection
Tools and Equipment Collection

Photograph appears courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland