Monument record MHG19302 - Corn Mill, Spinningdale Burn

NH69SE 35 6567 9055
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The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900, p. 219) - Sinclair B Calder, 1974

J Aitken : 19/2/2004
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A roofed corn mill and an unroofed building are depicted on 1st edition of 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 course of a forestry survey by Headland Archaeology (NMRS MS 899/25, no.7). The mill measures 7m by 4m with 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 mill to the building which was depicted, roofless, on 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.
S Carter and J Wordsworth (Headland Archaeology) 5 February 1997; NMRS MS 899/25, no.7

NH 66 90 (centre) A short-notice forestry survey was undertaken by Headland Archaeology Ltd over roughly 7.5km2 of land to the W of Spinningdale on the northern shore of the Dornoch Firth. A total of 28 features or groups of features of archaeological interest were recorded, 19 of which had previously been noted. The majority are post-medieval settlement sites (buildings, farmsteads and settlement sites) recorded first by the OS in 1874.
NH 6567 9055 Mill; building. (NMRS NH 69 SE 35)
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
S Carter 1997