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Uses for Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Decoration: Hertfordshire Puddingstone takes a high polish showing off its attractive colours
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Milling: Puddingstone’s hardness and coherence made it ideal for grinding corn.
Top and base sections of a Roman rotary quern. The hole in the side of the top section was for the wooden handle
Neolithic rubbing stone for use with a saddle quern
(Circa 3500 BC)
24cm
10cm
Features in public places for example this one in Hertford Castle grounds (presented by ehgc).
Building: Blocks of puddingstone have been used locally as a building material since at least Roman times. Here at St Andrews St. car park Hertford
Jewellery: As Hertfordshire Puddingstone is so hard and coherent it can be worked in fine detail.(cuff links and pendant by www.eborjetworks.co.uk)