[Sca-cooks] watermills
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sun Feb 17 11:55:55 PST 2008
The few examples of horizontal mills I've encountered seem to have multiple
wheels, shafts and millstones, so the output may not be as small as you
think.
Bear
> Hmmm... I think I have a copy of that book somewhere. What I'm interested
> in
> is the percentage of each type and if they were regionally concentrated by
> type. I would expect that undershot wheels would be located on major
> rivers
> and have higher capacities per mill while the over shot wheels would be
> more
> varied in size and capacity. I would expect the horizontal mills be to
> generally the smallest in capacity. All this is just conjecture in search
> of confirmatory data which the Domesday Book would address as a historical
> "snapshot".
>
> Daniel
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