Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682536

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO11NW 97.03 10734 18383.

(NO 1072 1838) Old Windmill (NAT)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1902)

The tower, all that remains of the windmill, is about 19 feet high, with walls 3-4 feet thick. On the south side the arch of an underground structure - the receiving and dispatching room - joined the tower. This building has long been removed, only the arch in the tower remaining to indicate its position.

On the lintels of the two doorways of the tower are roughly incised emblems, which may be talismanic (Information from J S Richardson)

There is no date on the tower, but its masonry matches that of the dovecot (NO 1100 1863) (NO11NW 17) which bears the date '1697'.

T M'Laren 1946.

Generally as described and illustrated the windmill is 6.0m in diameter. On the SSE is a hollow up to 2.0m deep and 12.0m wide that presumably represents the site of the underground room.

Earthworks surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R D L) 11 June 1966.

(Location cited as NO 110 187, and name as Dunbarney Windmill). 17th to 18th century. The stump of a tapering vaulted tower.

J R Hume 1977.

The shell of a windmill is situated in a small wood 480m SW of Dunbarney House (NO11NW 97.00). It is circular on plan and measures 6m in overall diameter at the base by about 5m in height, and the walls are 1m thick.

The windmill is constructed of random sandstone rubble but the opposed doorways on the E and W sides respectively are furbished with dressed sandstone jambs and lintels. Two steps descend from each entrance into the interior, to the level of a scarcement, some 0.4m wide, set about 1m above the level of the floor of the basement. The latter lies at least 1.5m below the external ground surface and is set into the N end of a rock-cut feature that has the appearance of a narrow quarry, but is almost certainly the site of a vaulted cellar. Access from this cellar into the basement of the tower has been provided by a wide arch, its ragged edge indicating the profile of the vault that extended southwards.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 25 November 1996.

J W and R E Seath 1991.