View on ground floor along front of gear cupboard
B 15126
Description View on ground floor along front of gear cupboard
Date 2/4/1987
Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Catalogue Number B 15126
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749609
Scope and Content Ground floor with belt-drives from gear cupboard, Golspie Mill, Golspie, Highland, from south-east Golspie Mill was built 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 ground floor of the mill, with belt-drives stretching across the room transferring power from the waterwheel to the millstones on the floor above. The floor above is supported on iron columns. Beremeal produced at the mill is made from bere barley, an ancient variety of which has been grown in Scotland since Neolithic times (2,000 BC). The grains are dried on the kiln floor, milled once to remove the spiky 'awn' on each ear, cleaned, aspirated (dust-removed using air flow), and milled a further two times into fine meal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 10.87.14
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