Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand 🌍


Wellington (#nzstone18)

Te Papa:

Not on public display, but kept in storage. A pair of 3ft diameter stones, each cut out as a single piece, but now cracked/broken and held together with iron bands. Face of bedstone shows dressing for both clockwise and anticlockwise rotation, suggesting the stones have been reused from an earlier mill. (Suspect runner stone shows same, but unable to lift up to see). Found in the hedge on Section 42 in Tawa, and thus thought to have come from the water powered horse feed mill built on that section by the Morgan family. Given by A. G. Blight in 1968.

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