Millstones. Dean Industrial Village. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
The millstones, on the site of the former Lindsay's Mill, are made from a hard stone, specially imported from France. Dean stones are examples of French Burr stones, composite quartz stones imported from Normandy. Pieces of stone were shaped to fit together, cemented with plaster of Paris, and bound together with an iron rim. Such stones were twice as expensive as gritstones. The dressings, the distinctive pattern of grooves cut into the flat surface of the stones, are still just discernable on the stones at Dean. Oddly the stone facing the river seems to show traces of an unusual spiral dressing while the other two have the common dressing of parallel grooves in tangential segments. The mill, one of seventeen in the vicinity in the , was driven by water from The Water of Leith.
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Location: Dean Industrial Village. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: burr, dean, french, lindsay, mill, millstones, stone, stones, village
