Antique Stone Mill

An antique millstone in limestone, a solid cylinder 37 inches across, with its sides left rough and pitted and its top face worn smooth by years of grinding. The color is ash gray and oatmeal with faint charcoal speckles. An iron liner rings the central hole, a dark industrial edge set into the pale, salt-worn stone.

It measures 37 inches in diameter and 16 inches high, a low disc at knee height. It is a European piece, 18th or 19th century by type, and the iron liner came with it. At this size it travels on a pallet; check the floor if it is going indoors, since the weight is all in one small footprint.

Indoors it is a low table or a plinth for a heavy pot near a hearth or threshold, where it will not block sightlines; outdoors the central opening catches rain or holds a candle. It sits well on wide-plank oak, against blackened steel, or near washed linen and terracotta that pick up the oatmeal in the stone. This antique millstone has sold. We usually have a stone mill wheel or two in the yard; ask and we will send photographs of what is current.