Archaeology Notes

Event ID 776543

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/776543

HY32SW 5 32538 22849

The Click Mill at Dounby is the last of the horizontal water-mills of Orkney, still in use. It has been restored by the Ministry of Works, and has been scheduled.

S Cruden 1949.

The Click Mill, as described, is at HY 3253 2285.

Under Guardianship.

Visited by OS (RL), 27 May 1967.

(Location cited as HY 325 228). Click Mill, Dounby, built c. 1825. A small roughly rectangular dry flagstone rubble bulding, with a flagstone roof covered in turf. The tirl has two rows, each of six paddles. The stones have a wooden casing and a chute leading to a meal box. The hopper is supported on a wooden gantry. Now a Guardianship ancient monument.

J R Hume 1977.

The mill at Millbrig, Birsay (NE of Dounby) was built in about 1822-4 by John Spence, replacing an older mill which had become ruinous. Because of its uniqueness in Orkney, it was repaired by the Orkney Archaeological Society and offered to the (then) Office of Works in 1932, since when it has been a Guardianship Monument.

A Fenton 1978.