Antique Stone Mill

A pair of antique millstones in weathered limestone, each a thick disk with a squared hole through the center that once took the shaft of a grain mill. The surface has gone a soft cream and ash gray, with rust-colored mineral deposits scattered across the face, and the circular edges are blunt and irregular, pitted by centuries of wear. They are offered together or singly.

The larger is about 31 inches in diameter and 7 3/4 inches thick; the smaller is about 29 inches in diameter and 8 1/2 inches thick. Each center hole is about 6 inches square. Both are heavy enough to need two people or a small machine to move, and they can live outdoors indefinitely.

One makes a low stone table in a plain room, on a short iron frame or simply on the floor; two make a pair of garden seats or stepping platforms set in gravel, or a plinth for a large pot at the end of a path. Lime plaster, reclaimed oak and copper or cast iron sit well beside them. The antique millstone pair is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see them, or ask us for photographs and a quote for one or both delivered.