Carved millstones Hathersage
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Studio9 / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
B1RDCTFile size:
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5050 x 3367 px | 42.8 x 28.5 cm | 16.8 x 11.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
April 2008Location:
Derbyshire Peak District ukMore information:
Old millstones lying among the trees Peak District, National Park and Derbyshire.Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains. The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called buhrstone (or burrstone), an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified, fossiliferous limestone. In some sandstones, the cement is calcareous. Millstones used in Britain were commonly of two types: Derbyshire Peak stones of grey millstone grit, cut from one piece, used for grinding barley; imitation Derbyshire Peak stones are used as decorative signposts at the boundaries of the Peak District National Park. Derbyshire Peak stones wear quickly and are typically used to grind animal feed since they leave stone powder in the flour, making it undesirable for human consumption.