Possible mill stone found in dump?

[gdog68]

Found this today and am curious if this is a mill stone. Not sure what to do with it and if it's worth anything.

 

[moodorf]

It certainly looks like a mill stone. cool find! I don't know if it's worth anything though

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yep that looks like a millstone to me too. I don't think I've ever seen one that small before. Never seen one for sale either though so no clue what sort of value these have.

 

[Johnny M]

I cringe when I imagine what goodies that bad boy crushed when it was heaved on the dump

 

[UncleBruce]

Found this today and am curious if this is a mill stone. Not sure what to do with it and if it's worth anything.

Looks more like a stone wheel for sharpening tools.

 

[UncleBruce]

 

[hemihampton]

Do they make grind stones that look like that?

 

[UncleBruce]

Do they make grind stones that look like that?

Awfully small for grinding in my thoughts. The mill stones used for grinding that I've seen are several feet across.

 

[CanadianBottles]

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I think you're right, that makes more sense. I was wondering what they would have been grinding with such a small wheel. I was imagining someone making their own flour at home.

 

[willong]

A grindstone for sharpening tools was also my first thought. The traces of radial grooves visible in the side surface of the stone confuse the issue though, and make me think, somewhat, that it might have been half of a small quern mill for home/farm milling small batches of grain as per CanadianBottles' speculation.

If I had to place a bet, I'd go with the item being the remnant of someone's experiment to see if they could repurpose a worn-down grindstone and put it to use as a quern mill. Those usually have a round central hole and an offset handle,

but are sometimes rotated without the aid of a handle by just grasping the edge of the stone with both hands and turning it like a steering wheel.

Grooves help facilitate capture of the kernels and transport them and the resultant flour across the grinding surfaces.