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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 775976
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/775976
NC25NW 7.01 2073 5894
(Location cited as NC 208 590). Mill, Oldshoremore, early 19th century. The roofless ruin of a rectangular 1-storey rubble building, with the iron axle and hub of an 8-spoke wheel, with wooden spooks 28ins (0.71m) wide by about 12ft (3.7m) diameter, which drove one pair of stones. The iron pit-wheel survives.
J R Hume 1977.
The remains of this disused mill comprise the shell of the building, a remnant of the wheel (not in situ), and traces of the silted-up lade.
Visited by OS (JM), 30 May 1980.
NC 200 590 (centre) A second field survey of parts of the John Muir Trust Sandwood Estate and some adjacent areas was carried out by ACFA in July 2002, extending a similar 1998 survey (DES 2000, 51).
The Oldshoremore corn mill, a Scheduled Monument, was surveyed and recorded in detail.
Copies of the 1998 and 2003 survey reports have been lodged with the NMRS.
J C Waterton 2003.
