During the archaeological activities at Deir Waraq, Sixty-Seven
ground stones were found, they include twenty four complete artifacts
and forty three broken artifacts.
The pestle is dominant in the assemblage and most of the pestles are
made from
basalt.
The pestles of Deir Waraq can be classified into four categories
according to their from such as cylindrical, conical, bend top and oval
shape.
Similar pestles were discovered at many prehistoric Levantine
archaeological sitess, they date to Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.