Trestle (mill)

For other uses, see Trestle (disambiguation).
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]

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]

  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.