Postmedieval mills and milling, The Mills Archive
Outwood Mill, Surrey, a typical postmedieval post mill, originally built with a roundhouse at two pairs of stones, one in the head and one in the tail (Photo H. E. S. Simmons, Mills Archive Collection, HESS0995) Millstones continued to be imported from France and Germany, as they had been in the medieval period, French burrs and lava ...