Gents Mag 1776 p.311

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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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