In c.160BC Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149BC) wrote De Agri Cultura (On Agriculture) in which it he refers to a donkey mill, a saddle quern and a Spanish mill, probably a rotary quern, as being amongst the equipment necessary for an olive yard. He also recommends a waterwheel, as well as a donkey mill and a saddle quern, for a vineyard.
‘Spanish mills’. Rotary querns from Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, 2nd to 1st century BC
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