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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 708988
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/708988
NS97NE 58.01 96526 77570
(Location cited as NS 965 775). Myrehead Windmill. A late 18th or early 19th century tower grain mill, now roofless, 11.9m high and 6m in diameter at base. A slender circular tower with a tapering central section, built of rubble masonry.
RCAHMS 1963; I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967; G Douglas, M Oglethorpe and J R Hume 1984.
Shown on 2nd edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map, 1863, Stirlingshire, Sheet No. XXXI.7, as a circle attached to a group of buildings called 'Myrehead' and the building with the tower attached is marked 'Furnace' and 'Engine House'. It is a disused, capless tower built of rubble masonry, 11.9m high and 6m in diameter at the base. Two door openings visible at ground level, one of which leads into the attached building. The attached buildings survive but there is little sign of their original use. At a level of 3.9m above ground level there is a doorway and a row of 14cm square holes, spaced 50-60 cm apart, on the outside face of the tower. These holes are thought to have held supports for the reefing stage at this level. Douglas, Oglethorpe and Hume 1984.
