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Field Visit
Date 18 August 1996 - 14 October 1996
Event ID 722072
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/722072
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A mill and a farmstead are situated on either side of a track that runs along the NW of the Lucas Burn. The largely bulldozed remains of the farmstead lie NW of the track and comprise the fragmentary foundations of a courtyard farmstead with parts of the NE and SW wings being best-preserved. The remains of the mill lie in woodland on the opposite side of the track, between it and the burn. Leading up to the mill-building on the SW is an embankment which carried the lade from a dam about 150m away. The mill is terraced into the ground to a depth of 1.7m, but it is open to the E where a track leads down to the burn. It measures 6m from N to S by 5m within faced-rubble walls 0.7m thick. The 1st editionof the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1866, sheet cvii) depicts a roofed, courtyard-farmsteading at Lucas, which appears to be the bull-dozed structure observed at the date of survey, but the mill is depicted as unroofed, with a sluice and pond about 150m to the SW.
(EARN96 12)
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 18 August 1996 and (PJD) 14 October 1996
