Anybody know what this is?

[PlugThug]

Ran across this a while back and can't figure out what it is

 

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[mojjax]

mill grinding stone

 

[PlugThug]

That's it! It's a Millstone.

 

[tamrock]

There was an episode of American Pickers and they had to find one of those to landscape the yard of William Shatner. Pretty effective way of milling grain and ore for thousands of years water wheel

 

[Icewing]

Beautiful gristmill stone, and worth quite a bit, but a little heavy in the ol' finds pouch.

 

[duggap]

I can't validate this information, but an old timer told me that the pre civil war mills had stones that were thick like yours. Then after the war the mill stones were only about half as wide as yours.

 

[Tedyoh]

I wonder why someone put it in an over grown field.

 

[bradyboy]

Awesome wheel
Looks new , not worked
Having said that, its a cool modern piece of art
Brady

 

[bradyboy]

I hope that the wheel is sitting in sand and not cement
Brady

 

[mojjax]

Back in the 70's when was 14 I found 3 on a wooded hillside . one was complete - half way down the hill - the other 2 were still un finished embedded the granite boulders .

 

[Tony in SC]

We have a couple of members of our group that still run their families old grist mills. They hate to see a good stone wasted. Tony