Trestle (mill)

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A mill's trestle.

The trestle of a post mill is the arrangement of the main post, crosstrees and quarterbars that form the substructure of this type of windmill. [1] It may or may not be surrounded by a roundhouse . Post mills without a roundhouse are known as open trestle post mills. [2]

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A Trestle Mill.

A trestle mill is a variety of smock mill, usually without weatherboards, formerly used for drainage in the Norfolk Broads. [3] Examples can be found at Horning, [4] Ludham [5] and St Olaves. [6]

A well preserved example of a timber crosstree, from the trestle of a medieval windmill, was excavated by archaeologists at Humberstone, near Leicester, in 2007 [7] .

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References

  1. ↑ Farries 1982, pp. 26–27.
  2. ↑ Coles Finch 1933, p. 290.
  3. ↑ Smith 1990, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Smith 1990, pp. 28, 55.
  5. ↑ Smith 1990, pp. 30, 56.
  6. ↑ Smith 1990, p. 46.
  7. ↑ Thomas 2008.
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