View from E of mill. Digital image of D 4224/20.
SC 749627
Description View from E of mill. Digital image of D 4224/20.
Date 12/11/1986
Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Catalogue Number SC 749627
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 4224/20
Scope and Content Munlochy Mill, Highland, from east Munlochy Mill was built c.1740, and has been out of use since 1950. It is a two-storeyed, rubble building with attached kiln and husk 'cupboard'. Two pairs of millstones were powered by an iron overshot waterwheel measuring 0.95m wide and 3.67m in diameter. This shows the mill set into an incline. Water was channelled onto the wheel from a wooden lade (right), which turned the waterwheel with its 32 wooden buckets. A small lean-to building called a husk cupboard behind the lade, once stored husks for use as fuel (now demolished). Wate-wheels have been used as a source of power for hundreds of years and can be divided into two types. The earliest are the horizontal mills with a wheel turned by a stream with its shaft turning the millstone above directly; the other type has a vertical wheel and moves the stones using a series of gears. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference SIAS neg.no.36/86/20
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