Grinder

Comes from: Devika in Nordli
Age: Uncertain, probably from ca. 1800
To the museum: 1959

The mill house is raised and stands on posts in the stream, the roof is covered with turf. Inside there are traces of soot, which may indicate that the house was used as a drying house or sauna before it became a mill house. The mill wheel is vertical, and it is this that drives the upper stone around, the lower stone (pond stone') is fixed. The mill is powered by the water that runs in the gutter when the mill is in operation. The millstones come from Selbu, where there was a large production of such stones.

It was the "Bekkekvernutvalget", set up by the Staten Kornforretning in 1955, which found that the Korsådals creek at the museum here was well suited for a small mill. The committee's task was to salvage a number of stream grinders that were still intact. The board of the museum accepted the offer to set up a mill, and the Statens Kornforretning bought the mill in Nordli and moved it to Stiklestad. The museum then paid for setting up and dam construction. The mill was moved further down when the stream was secured around the year 2000.

There are hardly any examples of such stream mills from the Middle Ages in Trøndelag, but most are younger. Before water power came into use, they used hand mills to grind the grain into flour.