Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667969

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ56NE 3.01 5601 6571.

(NJ 5601 6571) Windmill (In Ruins) on site of Tumulus (NR)

OS 6" map, (1938)

On the site of a now ruinous windmill over-looking Sandend Bay, stood up till the year 1760, a circular mound of stones 14ft high and 60 feet broad. Beneath it was found a stone cist enclosing bones alongside of which was a deer's horn.

Anon 1884; Statistical Account (OSA) 1791-9.

No trace now remain of the cairn on which the remains of the mill now four storeys high, stand. From the evidence in Anon (1884) it is probable that the mill was built shortly after 1760.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 September 1961.

No change.

Visited by OS (NKB) 21 July 1967.