Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671897

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NK05NE 12 05629 58594

(Location cited as NK 056 586). Savoch, windmill stump. Late 18th century. A slightly tapering circular-section rubble mill, with iron rim and wooden carriage for the sails. The remains of the gear drive to the drainage pump also survive.

J R Hume 1977.

Late 18th Century tower pumping Mill.

I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1966; G Douglas, M Oglethorpe and J Hume 1984.

NK 0562 5859 A watching brief was undertaken on 28 September 2007 during the removal of dumped silt alongside

the late 18th-century tower of the wind-powered water-pumping mill. A number of new structural features were revealed and recorded. Several pieces of the mill machinery were retrieved, recorded and placed in the mill for safekeeping.

Report deposited with Aberdeenshire SMR, Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.

Funder: RSPB.

H K Murray and J C Murray, 2007.