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Do any millstones have concentric circles? The few I've seen had tangentially radial grooves, to lead the flour out to the sides. It seems to me a set of concentric ridges would not mill very well. But I'm not the expert, there.

It's also true I can't tell the exact shape of the whole--elliptical or circular--from the fragment. And that we're assuming the "whole" was symmetrically round. It might have been a meander, etc.

BuckyE wrote:
Do any millstones have concentric circles? The few I've seen had tangentially radial grooves, to lead the flour out to the sides. It seems to me a set of concentric ridges would not mill very well. But I'm not the expert, there.
You're right there, I think. But then again ... that could be why someone smashed it up. An aborted attempt at something different. A spiral would send stuff in- or outwards depending on how you turned it.

BuckyE wrote:
It seems to me a set of concentric ridges would not mill very well.
I'm no expert either, but I can still see those ridges as indcatig millstone-ness. There's nothing to indicate that the centre of the stone was in what would be the top left of SL's photo.

If the hole of this putative millstone were at the top right, then the grooves would be placed in such as way as to do the business with the grain.