Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648874

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC36NE 51 39144 68570

For detached wheel-pit at NC 3918 6866, see NC36NE 17.01.

(Location cited AS NC 392 686). Corn mill, Balnakeil, early 19th century. A 2-storey rectangular rubble building, now gutted, with the site of a high-breast wheel about 3ft (0.9m) wide by 10ft (3.1m) diameter. By Balnakeil House (NC36NE 4) is a detached wheel-pit (NC36NE 17.01) for a wheel about 54ins (1.37M) wide by 10ft (3.1m) diameter, which powered a rope drive to the steading on the hillside above.

J R Hume 1977.