Castlehill Pavement Works, Tower Pumping Windmill
Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Castlehill Pavement Works, Tower Pumping Windmill
Classification Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 8418
Site Number ND16NE 42.01
NGR ND 1952 6860
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Olrig
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND16NE 42.01 1952 6860
(Location cited as ND 195 685). Windmill stump, Castlehill, early 19th century. A neatly built conical tower about 20ft (6.1m) high, of flagstone, with a corbelled doorway. The mill was almost certainly used for draining flagstone quarries.
J R Hume 1977.
Pumping Windmill, masonry rubble stump of a small unit probably used to pump the quarry workings. For details of the stump see MS/500/15/17.
Visited by RCAHMS (GJD) November 1991.
