Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704021

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS75SE 24 centred 75259 51017

(Location cited as NS 725 508). Avonbank Bleach Works, Millheugh. Founded as a print works c. 1796 and converted to a bleachworks, c. 1836. The main block is a 3-storey, 4-by-10-bay building, and there is a superb 2-storey, 9-bay beetling mill dating from 1839, with the original beetling stocks. A single-storey beetling shed was added in 1898.

J R Hume 1976.

Beetling machines.

G D Hay and G P Stell 1986.