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View from E of mill

D 4224/20

Description View from E of mill

Date 12/11/1986

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number D 4224/20

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 749627

Scope and Content Munlochy Mill, Highland, from east Munlochy Mill was built c.1740, and has been out of use since 1950. It is a two-storeyed, rubble building with attached kiln and husk 'cupboard'. Two pairs of millstones were powered by an iron overshot waterwheel measuring 0.95m wide and 3.67m in diameter. This shows the mill set into an incline. Water was channelled onto the wheel from a wooden lade (right), which turned the waterwheel with its 32 wooden buckets. A small lean-to building called a husk cupboard behind the lade, once stored husks for use as fuel (now demolished). Wate-wheels have been used as a source of power for hundreds of years and can be divided into two types. The earliest are the horizontal mills with a wheel turned by a stream with its shaft turning the millstone above directly; the other type has a vertical wheel and moves the stones using a series of gears. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference SIAS neg.no.36/86/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/346756

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