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A millstone is usually made from millstone grit - and there is plenty of it about - but this stone isn't it. Millstones that have been discarded usually have both wear patterns and radial grooves (rather than a rude spiral). There has been a mill within walking distance, a few hundred years ago, but it was a woollen mill - and half a mile away. It's a pity the stone is fragmented, and mostly lost, but this is the only carved spiral in this part of the country (NW England). Calling it something it isn't won't help in the slightest. Where is the nearest next one to this ? Ireland, Scotland or Wales ?

StoneLifter wrote:
this is the only carved spiral in this part of the country (NW England). Calling it something it isn't won't help in the slightest. Where is the nearest next one to this ?
Ahem, and ahem again.

SL, how big do you reckon the spiral would have been? I ask, because there appears to be hardly any curvature in the grooving, so it must have been quite large.

Cheers

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This picture does not look like any of the carved spirals I've seen in the North of England. Edges seem too defined, far too many bands & no real curvature to speak of. I've seen similar stones in walls & always assumed they were much more modern.

Show me one in the middle of nowhere, in situ & I'll start to believe...

The carving does not have to be a complete spiral, What about the lines on top of the Killycluggin stone.