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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The stones marked 1, 2, in plate II. were taken out of the ground about A. D. 1760, in removing a large stone at Durwood near Hartle moor in the Peak; they lay by the side of a large urn, half full of burnt bones. They are flat at top, but somewhat convex on the under sides, and fig. 2. which Mr. Rooke has in his possession, is about four inches and a half thick. They are about a foot diameter, but fig. 2. is so much less than the other, that when laid upon it (and one cannot doubt but they were intended to be placed one upon the other), it could be turned round within the rim of it.
page 20 note [a] See Dr. Shaw's Travels, p. 297.
page 20 note [b] Dr. Littleton's Dictionary: tis the Saxon, lizan; whence also comes our lie.
page 21 note [c] Dr. shaw, p. 296.
page 21 note [d] Vide omnino Hutchinsonum ad Xenoph. Cyri Anab. p. 49.
page 21 note [e] Essay on the coins of Cunobelin, p. 88. 95. 96.
page 21 note [f] Thoresby, Ducat. Leod. p. 160.
page 22 note [g] See his plate, p. 162.
page 22 note [h] See Dr. Shaw's Description of the Moorish Stones above.
page 22 note [i] Within the area of Bratton camp in Wiltshlre which is supposed to have been occupied by the Danes in the reign of Alfred, have been found these kind of millstones sixteen and eighteen inches diameter. R. G.
page 23 note [k] Mr. Pennant has engraved the manner of working the quern or handmill stones in the Hebrides. “This method, he observes, is very tedious, for it employs two pair of hands four hours to grind only a single bushel of corn. The landlord can oblige his tenants, as in England, to make use of the more expeditious method of grinding by watermills, and empowers his millar to search out and break any querns he can find as machines that defraud him of the toll. Many centuries ago the legislature endeavoured to discourage these aukward mills, so prejudicial to the landlords who had been at the expence of others. In 1284, in the time of Alexander III. it was provided that “na man sall presume to grind quheit, maishlock or rye in hand mylne except he be compelled by storme or be in lack of mills quhilk soulde grinde the samen. And in this case gif a man grindes at hand mylnes he sall gif the threttein measure as multure, gif anie man contraveins this our prohibition he sall tine his hand mylnesperpetuallie.” The quern or bra is made in some of the countries of the mainland, and costs about fourteen shillings.” Voyage to the Hebrides 281. 286. pl. XXXIV.
page 23 note [l] Du Fresne, v. Molendinum.
page 23 note [m] Calmet. Dict. II. p. 484.