Southvoe, Horizontal Mill View of tirl and lightening tree
SC 463724
Description Southvoe, Horizontal Mill View of tirl and lightening tree
Date 8/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 463724
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Croft House Museum, Southvoe, Shetland This museum was created in the 1970s from the buildings of a 19th century croft. These consist of a house and steading range, with a corn-drying kiln and barn, and three horizontal mills, one completely restored and another re-roofed. This view shows the underhouse in the lowest of the three mills in the museum, with the horizontal wheel (tirl). The bottom bearing of the wheel is on a plank which can be raised and lowered to adjust the distance between the stones above. This type of mill, with its horizontal waterwheel driving directly the top stone of the millstones, was very generally used in Shetland, where subsistence farming was general, and the timber needed for vertical mills was scarce. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/73/7
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