(Universitat de Lleida. Departament d'Història. Secció d'Arqueologia, Prehistòria i Història Antiga, 2019) Belmont, Alain
Although geographically outside the heart of Europe, Norwegian millstone production
was far from isolated from the rest of the continent. This article is based on research undertaken
in French historical archives, a series of 18th- and 19th-century written sources, fi eldwork,
and the comparison of Norwegian millstone quarries with over hundreds of millstone quarries
recorded throughout Europe. The initial results indicate that Norwegian millstone quarries
were subject to the same international rules of commerce as their contemporary counterparts.
Norway therefore exported their millstones at certain periods of time and were subject to the
import of foreign millstones at others.