Archaeology Notes

Event ID 745768

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY64NE 13.00 67072 45115

HY64NE 13.01 67020 45154 Threshing mill.

HY64NE 13.02 67009 45143 Dovecot and adjoining drying kiln.

(Location cited as HY 670 452). Scar Mills, 18th to 19th century. The watermill, part of the steading, is a rectangular two-storey rubble building with revolving kiln vent. Nearby is the stump of a windmill (HY64SE 46). This has a solid rubble base, with a short hollow extension. Access is by an opening above the base.

J R Hume 1977.

[Scar steading].This very extensive complex is U-plan in shape and incorporates a large dwelling. The dwelling range also includes a steam-powered threshing and grain mill with a substantial kiln (HY64SE 13.01). The complex also includes an appended dovecot and implement shed, another range containing a carriage house and stable and a detached worker's house, with closet and garden. This is one of the few Sanday steadings that had a cart shed (converted to stabling) and had a very early silage shed built between 1879 and 1901. There is also a new cattle shed with midden. The steading is in agricultural use as a feed store, cattle shed and for clipping and lambing. The buildings are in a fair condition but the house was unoccupied and in poor condition on the date of visit.

(See NMRS MS 500/36/94 for layout and survey details).

Visited by RCAHMS (GJD) August 1996.

RCAHMS and NMS, 1998.