Kingsteps Mill
Watermill (Medieval)
Site Name Kingsteps Mill
Classification Watermill (Medieval)
Canmore ID 15558
Site Number NH95NW 4
NGR NH 9002 5719
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15558
- Council Highland
- Parish Nairn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH95NW 4 9002 5719.
At the freestone quarries at King's Steps is the site of an old mill. Near the mill wheel a spot in the rock bearing marks like hoofprints used to be pointed out, traditionally made by the King's horse, hence the name 'King's Steps'.
G Bain 1890
The marked rock is sited to NH 9002 5719 from information received from the curator of the Nairn Museum. No information was obtained about the mill mentioned by Bain.
Visited by OS (EGC) 1 December 1961
No traces are now visible of the mill noted by Bain, in what is now an overgrown quarry.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978.
Reference (1890)
At the freestone quarries at King's Steps is the site of an old mill. Near the mill wheel a spot in the rock bearing marks like hoofprints used to be pointed out, traditionally made by the King's horse, hence the name 'King's Steps'.
G Bain 1890
Field Visit (1 December 1961)
The marked rock is sited to NH 9002 5719 from information received from the curator of the Nairn Museum. No information was obtained about the mill mentioned by Bain.
Visited by OS (EGC) 1 December 1961
Field Visit (March 1978)
Kingsteps Mill NH c.900 571 NH95NW 4
No traces are now visible in an overgrown quarry of an 'old' mill noted in 1890.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
Bain c. 1890, 12
