megadread
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Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 21, 2010, 23:06
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Found embedded in the peat close to Ash Cabin Flat stone circle.
Unfinished mill stone. ?
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo226/Aveburywhs/11022010273.jpg
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo226/Aveburywhs/11022010274.jpg
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo226/Aveburywhs/11022010271.jpg
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo226/Aveburywhs/11022010269.jpg
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tjj
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 21, 2010, 23:18
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If its not a millstone, it has to be some sort of weight. What would a cylindrical weight be used for I wonder - perhaps a seal of some sort.
These are just wild guesses MD, I'm sure someone else can throw their hat at it ... or a glove.
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juamei
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 21, 2010, 23:27
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Looks kinda small for a mill stone. Or maybe I have just seen biguns.
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megadread
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 00:14
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juamei wrote: Looks kinda small for a mill stone. Or maybe I have just seen biguns.
Well "my" area is famous for it's mill stones and there's loads of them laid around in various states from "blanks" to the finished article but as you say they're 5 - 10 times bigger than this object.
Myself, Paulus and his good lady had a look at it but it stumped us all.
It's unusual as a mill stone if that's what it is as it's a fair distance from where the others were produced and there's no habitation remains besides the old hill fort in the area, well there's a few modern farms but that's it.
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Hob
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 02:17
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I've a vague idea that really old millstones are smaller than the ones you usually see hacked out in the last couple of hundred years. It sort of makes logical sense that before water power was prevalent, and after hand querns fell out of use, there must have been an intermediate size for millstones.
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tomwatts
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 06:46
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http://www.english-garden-antiques.co.uk/millstones/mixed-miillstones.jpg
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StoneGloves
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 07:53
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I've a very good idea what it is - but I don't want jumping on for suggesting what I think it may have been - so, for now, I'll just post some words from a song. "Roll away the stone, roll away the stone, won't you roll away the stone, (continues)."
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StoneGloves
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 08:30
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It's a long link, but here it is ( http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bmsap_0301-8644_1889_num_12_1_6447 ). If there were three of you there then you are each co-finders. Attempting to persuade the county archaeologist of this item could prove to be difficult. I own one of these but it is still on site. I've no idea how to get it home now. Will you ask Paulus to reserve me Lancashire Placenames? Thanks.
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TheStandingStone
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 12:14
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It could be a millstone. I've seen them that small before. Particularly when they're older...
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 13:54
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Looks a bit liked a roughed-out rotary quern stone.
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