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Field Visit
Date 31 August 1955
Event ID 1108745
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1108745
"Beaton's Mill", Milton.
The house in which tradition says that James III was murdered (1) formerly stood about 70 yds. SE. of No. 350, beside a lane which leads up towards Milton from a ford over the Bannock Burn. When first visited, in 1954, it was ruinous, having been damaged by fire in 1952, and possessed no architectural features apart from a small window with widely chamfered arrises in the surviving gable. Its general appearance, however, was that of a cottage of the 17th or early 18th century, and this is borne out by an early photograph (2) which depicts a simple, one-storeyed building with a thatched roof. It is quite unlikely to have been in existence as early as 1488. The house has now been almost wholly demolished, but its foundations, which remain, show rubble construction with lime mortar. There is no evidence to support the idea that it was ever used as a mill, for which function its position would in fact have been quite unsuitable.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 31 August 1955
(1) Stat. Acct., xviii (1796), 410.
(2) Drysdale, W., Auld Biggins of Stirling, unnumbered illustration
