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Spinningdale Burn
Building (Period Unassigned), Grain Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Spinningdale Burn
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Grain Mill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 91385
Site Number NH69SE 35
NGR NH 6567 9055
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/91385
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69SE 35 6567 9055
A roofed corn mill and an unroofed building are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879-81, cxi), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 November 1995.
This mill and adjacent building were visited during the course of a forestry survey by Headland Archaeology (NMRS MS 899/25, no.7). The mill measures 7m by 4m with the N gable wall standing up to 1.7m in height. Adjacent to this gable end is a wheel pit for a small overshot or breastshot vertical wheel fed by a stone-lined lade. A well-graded track runs up from the mill to the building which was depicted, roofless, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879-81, cxi). This building, which is defined by low rubble footings, measures 6m by 3.5m.
Visited by S Carter and J Wordsworth (Headland Archaeology) 5 February 1997.
NMRS MS/899/25, no. 7
Site recorded during a short-notice forestry survey undertaken by Headland Archaeology Ltd over roughly 7.5km2 of land to the W of Spinningdale on the northern shore of the Dornoch Firth.
NH 6567 9055 Mill; building.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
S Carter 1997.
