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Richard G.

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These were found in a creek on an old family farm in our county. The flat pieces look to have been a circle with a large hole in the middle. The 2 small round stones with holes were found with them. The flat pieces are about 3/4 inch thick.
They were brought to the state ag museum for ID.
The land was all Indian territory 250 years ago.
Any ideas?
Richard in NW SC
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Grist mill??

My only reason is because they were found near a creek and are round. Even the broken pieces look like they were part of a larger single wheel, that had since been broken.
 
Yes, it seems smaller than most water power grist mills I have seen but maybe it was a small stream? It was real common in the pre steam, pre gasoline engine days to throw a dam across any steam and harness the water power. My Great grand dad ran a saw mill out of the Brokenstraw creek in the 1880s and sold hemlock shingles by the car load. There were several dams in that stretch of creek. My grandmothers family had a dam further down on a side steam in the 1840s. That area of PA was all pine forest at that time and they would float the logs down to Pitttsburg, maybe on down to the port. Lots of tall straight pines were floated out for ship masts.
 
Way too thin and small to be grist mill stones.
I am familiar with grist mill stones and don't see how these could be used to grind ciorn.
Richard
 
Looks like the small round ones would fit in the hole of the larger plate. Too small for a standard gristmill, but maybe an attempt at a hand powered gristmill?
 
my guess is a hand held grinding stone, it would have been used with a stone "mortar" like Indian cultures used to grind grain and corn with, this one would have been made by early settlers
 
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