Burn Of Relaquheim
Dam (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Lade (Period Unassigned), Pond (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Burn Of Relaquheim
Classification Dam (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Lade (Period Unassigned), Pond (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lynardoch; Relaquheim Burn
Canmore ID 217961
Site Number NJ31SW 134
NGR NJ 3138 1290
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/217961
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31SW 134 3138 1290
Formerly entered as Watermill (possible).
There are a mill building, a lade and a dam on the W of the steeply-cut gully of the Relaquheim Burn. The mill is much dilapidated and obscured by a later drystone dyke that runs across its W side from N to S. It measures about 3.5m from N to S by 2.6m transversely within a rubble-faced wall 0.8m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height.
The lade is visible as a narrow drain-like groove on the W of the drystone wall, and runs for about 20m N to a natural hollow. This may mark the location of a mill-pond, and a scatter of rubble beside the burn may be the remains of the dam.
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD), 28th June 2001.
