Keir Mill General view showing wooden gear
SC 450854
Description Keir Mill General view showing wooden gear
Date 29/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 450854
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Keir Mill, Dumfriesshire This mill, on a rectangular plan, had a 3-storey main range, with a two-storey granary and kiln at one end. By 1974all the machinery, including the wheel, had been removed, except for most of the wooden pit wheel, a rare survival. This view shows the remains of the wooden pit wheel, which was mounted on the axle of the waterwheel, and drove the vertical shaft(s) of the millstones. The sockets round the rim were for wooden teeth. This was a typical rural corn mill. Like many such, it has now been converted into a house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/235/15
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