French Antique Limestone Mill

An antique millstone from France, a wheel of limestone 39 inches across that once turned against another in a grain mill. The face is weathered gray and pale ash, cut with deep grinding grooves and crossed by diagonal tool marks that are still sharp in places. The edges have worn round, the surface is coarse and pitted, and the central bore where the drive once passed goes clean through the stone.

It measures 39 inches in diameter and 6 inches high. Two further measurements, 18 inches and 2 inches, are listed for the center of the stone; we will confirm with a tape what each refers to before you commit. It is a heavy piece and travels on a pallet, to be set with a forklift or by two masons with rollers. Condition is as it left the mill, with the grooves and pitting of its working life and nothing cosmetic done to it.

Lay it in a gravel path as a single round paver, set it on a short pedestal in a kitchen garden as a stone table for pots and tools, or stand it on edge against a wall where the grooves catch the afternoon light. Raw timber, iron and loose planting suit it. This antique millstone can be seen in our Marina Del Rey yard, or ask us and we will send photographs of the face and bore with a quote.