Archaeology Notes

Event ID 786210

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY50NW 33 5436 0936

See also HY50NW 62.

At Ness farm there is a rare operational example of a pre-war Climax windpump. Its owner, Mr D Harcus, also restored and maintains the one at Loch of Tankerness (HY50NW 24).

RCAHMS 1987 (OR56), visited May 1986

This Climax windpump was originally installed by the army at Greaves, Ham, Orkney where a large army supply depot was located, supplying drinking water for the site. It was dismantled and rebuilt at it's present position in the early 1950s, replacing a hand pump.

NMRS MS/500/31/19/2