Ancient Red Stone Village Millstone on a wooden stand , most probably from Ghana.
Stone
66 x 66 x 8.5 cm
26 x 26 x 3 3/8 in
26 x 26 x 3 3/8 in
279
€ 3,300.00
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Millstones are used for grinding wheat and other grains. Initially, people used a rubbing stone to grind the wheat manually on a simple flat grinding stone. Later they grind the grain into flour with the help of millstones. The two superimposes grinding stones could be turned by hands. Because of the force of the stones on the grain, it deforms and finally breaks. Millstones work together in pairs. You have a bottom stone or “bed stone” and a “runner stone, and the latter is the upper turning millstone. Millstones have a furrow pattern. The furrows transport the grain between each crossing furrows. That way, the furrows of both stones would work like a pair of scissors.