Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692316

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO86NW 12 80621 69077

Mill of Benholm (disused) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1973.

(Location cited as NO 807 691). Benholm Mill, 18th century, altered 1817. A small two-storey rubble building on an L plan, with an asbestos-roofed kiln. The two pairs of stones are driven by a six-spoke wood and iron overshot wheel about 2ft 6ins (0.76m) wide by 10ft (3.05m) diameter. There is a concrete dam.

J R Hume 1977.