Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721773

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX08SE 8 09027 83221

(NX 0903 8322) Windmill (NR) (remains of)

OS 1:10000 map (1979)

A tower mill, probably dating from the late 17th or early 18th centuries, which was ruinous by the 1790s. It is marked on Armstrong's map of 1773-5, by which time it was probably disused. The rubble-built remains stand 24ft high and 15ft in diameter over 3ft thick walls.

I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967

The remains of the mill are generally as described. There are doorways on the SW and NE and small slit windows. Extending from the NW for about 6m are the remains of the vaulted underground granary which leads to the basement. A hollow-way runs down the hill from it.

Visited by OS (JP) 4 January 1971

(Location cited as NX 091 833). Ballantrae Windmill, late 17th or early 18th century. A well-preserved rubble, 'vaulted-tower' windmill.

J R Hume 1976.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (JRL), 11 March 1977