Context (Related Documents)
See facsimile of Ronald Peel's field diary in Churchill College, Cambridge archive: BGND AS 1. (2004). Feb 9-11.
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Field collection)
Found by geologist Brigadier Ralph Ager Bagnold, navigator on the 1938 expedition of the Royal Geological Society and the Egypt Excavation society. Passed into the possession of Professor Ronald F. Peel, also on the expedition.
A photograph in the private collection of Ann Hamblin reads on the reverse: 'Film VI No:4. March 11. G.K. Base caves. 'Large hollow quern, rubber and flakes found by B. a few kms S.E. of camp.'
Event Date 11/3/1938
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (References)
Bagnold, R.A., Myers, O.H., Peel, R.F. and Winkler, H.A. (Apr. 1939), An Expedition to the Gilf Kebir and 'Uweinat, 1938. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 93, No.4. pp.281-312
Event Date 1939
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Acquisition Details)
Ronald F. Peel brought the quern and grinder to England in 1938. Peel's daughter gave these pieces to Michael Chisholm before 2015. They were donated to the museum on his behalf by his widow Judith Chisholm, following Michael's death on 9th July 2024.
Event Date 1/8/2024
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
A large, flat quernstone with smooth hollow in the centre (.1). Oval grindstone with one flat face (.2).
Event Date 2/8/2024
Author: Lily Stancliffe