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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648478
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648478
NC03SE 6.01 0557 3083.
(NC 0558 3083) Corn Mill (NAT)
OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
Shown on Home's Survey of Assynt 1774-5
J Home 1774-5.
The mill ruin measures 7m x 4m of drystone walling, maximum height c. 3m. The horizontally driven wheel has gone but several old mill-stones survive, as do the courses of mill stream and race.
Visited by OS (F R H) 16 May 1962.
(Location cited as NC 056 309). Norse Mill, Clashnessie, 18th to 19th century. The complete but roofless ruin of a single-storey, rectangular dry-stone building, with two rounded corners. There is a pair of 42ins (1.06m) diameter stones in position, a third to one side, and a 48ins (1.22m) stone. The iron shaft of the tirl is still in position. The roof of the underhouse was wooden.
J R Hume 1977.
This mill, shown as an unannotated structure on OS 6" map, (1969) at NC 0557 3083, is generally as described [by OS] above. The upper millstone, 1.1 m in diameter, is still in position on the drive shaft, and the lower stone is slightly displaced below. Two loose millstones lie abandoned close by.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 August 1980.
