Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710674

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08SW 84 01311 81470

(Location cited as NT 013 815). Windmill stump, Bridgeness. Built 1750. A circular tower, modified by the addition of a corbelled brick parapet and an external circular staircase. Reputedly used for mine drainage; now disused.

J R Hume 1976.

A 19th century outlook tower, converted into a dwelling, now disused. Incorporates the remains of a pumping windmill, built in 1750.

J G Callander 1924; I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967; J R Hume 1976; G Douglas, M Oglethorpe and J R Hume 1984.