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Gentleman's Magazine 1776 p.311
question, which before their clearing away could appear only
like common stone-heaps. In digging up these ruins an old
copper pan was found, some small stone mortars, and the
fragments of near twenty pair of hand-mill-stones, such as
are intimated by the figure; but nothing else of any utensil
kind. The mill-stones were of very coarse freestone, and
from a quarry about three miles distant; near twelve inches
in diameter, and picked and hollowed in the ordinary manner.
In the bottom stone B was a hole, as at n, where it is
supposed an iron spike was fastened for the top-stone A to
turn upon, by means of an orifice at r. Down the conical
pipe m r the grain was supposed to fall between the stones,
as from a common hopper. Some had a hole in the side of the
top stone as at o; others were without, and others again
were seemingly unfinished. On ploughing the field, nothing
more was discovered deserving particular notince, except
some ashes with the areas, and some burnt cobble-stones. -
No remains of any thing like fire-places were found in these
walls; and, indeed, their situation was rather too bleak for
dwelling-houses.
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