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Desk Based Assessment
Date 22 October 2015 - 28 October 2015
Event ID 1025177
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1025177
The age of the Old Mill House is not recorded, but the name ’Millton’ is first noted with the production of William Roy’s Military map of Scotland c.1750, suggesting a long history of milling on the site.
The building today known as 'The Old Mill House' is shown on the 25-inch 1st edition Ordnance Survey (Dumbartonshire Sheet XXII.7) surveyed in 1860 and is depicted as roofed. The area immediately north of 'The Old Mill House' is annotated as ‘Cotton Mill’, although also marked as a ‘ruin’. The mill workings in the area are likely to have been fed from a large triangular mill pond to the north of the 'Old Mill House'. This would have been routed via a lade, or a defined channel southwards, through the mill workings, to eventually re-join the burn. The route of this lade may have crossed the development area.
Information from Ross Cameron (Archas Cultural Heritage Ltd) November 2015. OASIS ID: archascu1-230312
