Balnakeil (4815)
Description
| (b) A mortared stone building with twin compartments located NW of Balnakeil House and approximately 10 m from the head of the beach, on the E side of the burn from Loch Croispol. The N compartment measures 5 m E-W by 1.4 m and is adjoined to the S compartment which measures 5.2 m E-W by 2.48 m. The base of these compartments are below ground level and the interior walls have a number of iron fittings in situ. This is clearly the underhouse of a vertical undershot mill with two alternate wheels as noted by Hume (ibid) and which powered a rope drive to the steading on the hillside above. This served to run threshing-machines and other mechanical farming-equipment to the earliest improved farm-buildings in the NW of Scotland and is the only known detached wheel-house of its type in the Highlands (Beaton, 1995, 96). |
Location
| 239170.00 | |
| 968650.00 | |
| 27700 | |
| 58.5760078 | |
| -4.7675657 |
Submitted photographs
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29/08/2014 | Balnakeil House and wheel pit | training1 |
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29/08/2014 | Balnakeil Sands wheel pit | training1 |
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29/08/2014 | Balnakeil Sands wheel pit | training1 |
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Submitted updates
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| 1735 | 29/08/2014 | training1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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