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Achscrabster Quarries, Windmill

Windmill (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Achscrabster Quarries, Windmill

Classification Windmill (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Achscrabster, Windpump

Canmore ID 7927

Site Number ND06SE 34

NGR ND 0821 6355

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Halkirk
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND06SE 34 0821 6355.

About 1/4 mile NW of Achscrabster quarries, on a small pond remains of an old windmill. This structure, which was a wind-pump, is marked on the 1st OS survey.

I L Donnachie and Stewart 1967.

Activities

Publication Account (2007)

Flagstone construction is a feature of civil engineering work in Caithness. On the road from Thurso to Sandside is Achscrabster flagstone quarry. A feature of this and other local quarries was the use of windmills for power. The surviving Achscrabster stump (ND 0825 6356), one of several still existing, is about 12 ft diameter at the base and 13 ft high, and was probably operational pumping water in ca.1860.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

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