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CHER Number:00736
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Beehive quern, Barham

Summary

Beehive quern in use as part of doorstep at public house.

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Parish:Barham and Woolley, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to 5th century Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)

Associated Finds:

  • BEEHIVE QUERN (Early Iron Age to 5th century Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)

Full description

1.Beehive quern acting as doorstop of Globe & Chequers Public House at Barham.

2. 23/03/1971: The former Globe & Chequers public house is now a a private house and has been for some 7 years. The present occupant knows nothing of quern.


<1> Garrood, J.R., 1937, Notes. TCHAS 5: 282-4, p. 283 (Article in serial). SCB16588.

<2> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 23/3/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.

Sources and further reading

<1>Article in serial: Garrood, J.R.. 1937. Notes. TCHAS 5: 282-4. p. 283.
<2>Verbal communication: Baird, J.. Field Investigator Comments. 23/3/71.