Dounby, Click Mill View from W showing WSW front and NNW front
SC 459569
Description Dounby, Click Mill View from W showing WSW front and NNW front
Date 1/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459569
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Click Mill, Dounby, Orkney This is Orkney's only surviving horizontal mill. Like the much more numerous examples I Shetland and Lewis it has a horizontal waterwheel driving directly the top stone of a single pair of millstones. This view shows the mill from the downstream side. The wheel is situated behind the opening on the right. The opening on the left is believed to have been to provide a current of air to blow the chaff away from shelled grain - grain with the husks removed This little mill was taken into the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1934. It was subsequently neatened up by Ministry of Works masons, hence its unusually regular appearance. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/30/10
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