General view from West North West on first floor. Digital image of B 15134.

Description General view from West North West on first floor. Digital image of B 15134.

Date 2/4/1987

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

Catalogue Number SC 749611

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 15134

Scope and Content First floor from west-north-west, Golspie Mill, Golspie, Highland 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 milling floor with three pairs of millstones, two of which have wooden hoppers above them which channel grain into the centre of each stone. The top stone turns over the fixed lower stone to grind the grain. Its height is adjusted to create different grades of meal. Cast-iron columns support the upper floor. Golspie Mill's waterwheel measures 3.86m in diameter and 1.72m wide. It powers three millstones which produce: beremeal (an ancient variety of barley which has been grown in Scotland since Neolithic times (2,000 BC), peasemeal (dried yellow peas ground into flour), wholemeal organic wheat flour, organic rye flour, and maize meal (known as 'Indian Meal' in the Western Isles). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 10.87.22

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