Building
Watermill
A watermill used a wheel turned by a stream or leat to drive millstones for grinding grain. Domesday Book (1086) records some 5,624 watermills in England. Horizontal wheels, common in early Anglo-Saxon mills, had apparently disappeared by the 13th century. Mills were usually a lord's property, worked by a miller who took a toll of the grain. From around the 12th century mills were also used for industrial purposes such as fulling cloth.
Caveats (confidence: high)
Wheel type (undershot or overshot) varied by site; the game's water-powered stamps and buddles for ore dressing belong to later centuries.
Sources: historicengland.org.uk · millsarchive.org
Built from
- Watermill
Made here
- Dress iron ore at the stamps
- Dress lead ore at the stamps
- Stamp and buddle tin ore to black tin