Hathersage Mill stones Peak District National Park, Derbyshire
Millstone round one's neck - thing or person acting as an encumbrance 'Whoso shall offend one of these little ones [children] which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea' (Matthew, 18: 6). A millstone was a large, heavy, flat circular stone with a central hole; turned by the action of a water-wheel, sails, etc. at a mill, it was used to grind or crush grains
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Location: Hathersage, Hope Valley, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK
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