Small wheel which drove hush's screen. Digital image of B 15107 CN.

Description Small wheel which drove hush's screen. Digital image of B 15107 CN.

Date 28/4/1984

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

Catalogue Number SC 749618

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 15107 CN

Scope and Content Small waterwheel, Achingale Mill, Highland Achingale Mill was built in 1885, on the site of an earlier mill. The three-storeyed, L-plan mill is built from dressed flagstones with a flagstone roof, and features a drying kiln, two pairs of millstones, a threshing barn, an external sack-hoist and two overshot waterwheels. It closed in 1950. This shows the smaller of the two waterwheels at the mill, which measures 0.28m wide and 1.22m in diameter, It is constructed from wood and iron and was fed with water from the same lade as the main wheel. It was used to run a sieve below a winnowing machine which fed spent shells of grain into the kiln furnace for use as fuel. This 'automatic' kiln-stoker at Achingale so impressed the miller of John O' Groats Mill, that he decided to install a similar system in his own mill. The main waterwheel measures 1.3m wide and 3.66m diameter and was used to power the millstones and the rest of the machinery within the mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 12-84-21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/749618

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