Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710410
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT08NE 34.01 09185 85902
(NT 0918 8589) Windmill (NR) (rems of)
OS 6"map, (1967)
Icehouse (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1948)
The stump of a small tower windmill, 15' high and 16' in diameter on walls 2' thick. The structure, roughly built of rubble, brick and cement, is harled and limed. It rests on a vaulted cellar built on a artifical mound. The latter is well preserved, being of sandstone and measuring 18' x 10 1/2'. The interior of this vault, which stretched into the basement of the mill, is blocked up by a stone wall. The mill itself is completely closed, the only door being bricked-up. The entrance to the vault has a 17th century chamfer and the mill is clearly of this date.
The windmill has clearly undergone considerable structural alteration since its abandonment as a mill. From its size, it either had a larger superstructure than usual, or a portion of the stone tower has been removed. The structure has probably served as a dovecot at some time, and the vault as an ice-house.
RCAHMS 1933; I L Donnachie and N Stewart 1967.
As described.
Visited by OS (J L D) 27 March 1961.
(Location cited as NT 091 859). Windmill, 17th century. Circular rubble stump of a vaulted-tower windmill.
J R Hume 1976.