Archaeology Notes

Event ID 773369

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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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.