Millstone of Alphonse Daudet's windmill in Fontvieille, France

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Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains. The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called buhrstone (or burrstone), an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified, fossiliferous limestone. In some sandstones, the cement is calcareous.

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Size: 5242px × 3493px
Location: Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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