St Patrick's Isle Pagan Lady Burial Pestle and Mortar
Date made: Viking: 800-1265
Description: Piece of pestle-shaped flint and a cup or mortar-shaped piece of mudstone.
These may have been used to prepare cosmetics, but perhaps more likely is a symbolic function because the "mortar" has a hole. It would have been of little practical use, so may have been a token or representation of a pestle and mortar.
Both found on top of the right hand side of the skeleton at the tip of the shears (1984-0016/24).
Measurements: 45mm; 33mm
Materials: flint, stone
Date found: 1984
Object name: pestle; mortar
Collection: Archaeology Collection
ID number: 1984-0016/25