Detail of the waterwheel bucket brace
B 15124
Description Detail of the waterwheel bucket brace
Date 2/4/1987
Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Catalogue Number B 15124
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749608
Scope and Content Waterwheel buckets, Golspie Mill, Golspie, Highland Golspie Mill was built in c.1810, and is one of two mills on the site which belonged to the Duke of Sutherland in the 1870s. Golspie Mill is a large, three-storeyed, five-bayed building constructed from dressed sandstone. Three pairs of millstones within the mill are still in use, and are powered by an overshot waterwheel (water is channelled to hit the top of the wheel). This shows the wooden boards within the waterwheel, known as 'buckets'. These are held in place by iron braces which help to strengthen the structure of the wheel. The waterwheel at Golspie measures 3.86m in diameter and 1.72m wide. Water hits the top of the wheel from the lade, fills the wooden buckets turning the wheel through a system of gears and belt-drives which drive the mill's machinery. Waste water is channelled away by an underground tail race. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 10.87.12
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