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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 773369
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773369
NX97NE 99 96987 75713.
For celtic stone heads built into a garden wall at the museum, see NX97NE 136 and NY07NE 2.
(Location cited as NX 968 758). Windmill, built 1798. A four-storey tapered rubble tower, with pedimented doors and windows, and a circular corbelled cap. Part of Dumfries Burgh Museum since 1834.
J R Hume 1976.
A much-altered tower mill, built in 1798; converted to form an observatory in 1834 and later became a museum. Comparable with Carluke High Mill (NS85SW 15 ).
I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967; G Douglas, M Oglethorpe and J R Hume 1984.
Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, Church Street. The dominant feature is the strongly battered tower of white-washed ashlar, built as a windmill in 1798.
J Gifford 1996.
