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View looking north west at mill
B 15105 CN
Description View looking north west at mill
Date 28/4/1984
Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Catalogue Number B 15105 CN
Category Manuscripts
Copies SC 749623
Scope and Content Achingale Mill, Highland, from south-east Achingale Mill was built in 1885, on the site of an earlier mill. The three-storeyed, L-plan mill is built from dressed flagstones with a flagstone roof, and features a drying kiln, two pairs of millstones, a threshing barn, an external sack-hoist and two overshot waterwheels. It closed in 1950. This shows the mill with its threshing barn (left), two waterwheels fed by a lade from the Burn of Achrole (centre), and drying kiln with two rooftop ventilators (right). The flow of water onto the overshot waterwheels was controlled from within the mill by means of a trapdoor in the lade. The two pairs of millstones within Achingale Mill measure 1.40m in diameter, and would have ground a variety of grains. Mills of this size usually have three pairs of millstones, although at Achingale a third stone was never added. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 12-84-23
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