Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650608

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC80SW 31 84110 00636

See NMRS, MS/500/35/47.

(Location cited as NC 841 007). Golspie Mill, probably built in the early 1820s. A fine 3-storey, 5-bay, sandstone-rubble building with a large kiln projection at the rear. The wood and iron and spoked overshot wheel, by James Abernethy, Aberdeen, is 12ft 8in diameter by 5ft 8in wide (3.86 by 1.72m) and drove 4 pairs of stones and a pot-barley mill. The largest mill in Sutherland, it closed in 1935.

J R Hume 1977.