The first biblical mention of the threshing floor is in . Threshing may be done by beating the grain using a flail on a threshing floor. She is the author of "The Threshing Floor". To cast the doors, Lorenzo worked in a studio named the Aja or Threshing floor. It seems to be a fifteenth-century threshing floor. The central bay of a barn was the typical location of the threshing floor. All were built on the threshing floor bought by King David. The edict of Verres required that this must take place on the threshing floor. Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. The loaf was taken to the threshing floor, and fixed round the stake. So, a threshing floor was not available to just anybody. The threshing floor therefore still served as the center of harvest celebration and activity. The slate slabs in the porches are the original threshing floor of the barn. Thick tongue and groove boards provide the threshing floor in the barn's center aisle. The related words "bere-tun" and "bere-flor" both meant threshing floor.