Trestle (mill)

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.

[2] 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.

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