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.