Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685032

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO19SE 13 15078 91279

(Location cited as NO 150 913 and name as Clunie Mill). 18th century and later. A 1- and 2-storey rubble building on an L plan, with a single-storey wooden sawmill extension. Though disused, the 8-spoke, mid-breast paddle wheel, 2ft 9ins (0.84m) wide by 13 ft 6ins (4.11m) diameter, survives; drive from it is by a gear ring of 8 ft (2.44m) diameter.

For an illustration of the mill in about 1900, see Butt, Donnachie and Hume, 1968.

J R Hume 1977.