Archive Catalogue

Roman mill at the Museum of London

GBMR-0676
Item
September 2016

Part of Great British Mill Race

Berry, Mark

Pompeiian mill (animal powered)

SWAT-008
Item
2016

Part of Sue Watts Collection

Animals were first used to turn millstones in Greece and Italy in the 4th century BC. The ‘hour-glass’ or Pompeiian mill, turned by a donkey or horse, was probably the earliest form of powered mill to be used in Britain, introduced by the Romans in the 1st century AD.

Animal-driven millstones in a bakery at Ostia near Rome

SWAT-014
Item
2009

Part of Sue Watts Collection

Diagram of Horse Mills

ROYG-IND-02-2.1
Item
July 2003

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

Gregory, Roy (d 2013) author and mill researcher

Background: Classification of Waterwheels

MCFC-10542
Item
2003

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Islamic and Roman designs of water-lifting equipment

Buckland in the Moor roundhouse

MBRN-DPH-92
Item
Jul 1999

Part of Martin Bodman Collection

Bodman, Martin

Buckland-in-the-Moor 3-horse gear

MBRN-DPH-94
Item
Jul 1999

Part of Martin Bodman Collection

Bodman, Martin

Trebarwith Farm, water-powered barn - Tintagel

MBRN-CPH-348
Item
Jul 1999

Part of Martin Bodman Collection

There are two mills in Trebarwith listed in the database that this photograph could depict

Bodman, Martin

"5 - Reconstruction /Restoration of 2 storey horse mill La Pagerie Martinique"

ROBE-1130160
Item
January 1996

Part of Niall Roberts Collection

Letter and four photographs from Clare Byrne

ROBE-1130119
Item
30 September 1996 [1995]

Part of Niall Roberts Collection

Letter from Clare Byrne to Niall Roberts enclosing four photographs of an animal powered three-roll vertical crusher sugar mill in Buena Vista, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
(All photographs are of the same three-roll vertical crusher).