Monument record 2359 - TIMSGARRY, LEWIS

Summary

Horizontal mill

Location

Grid reference NB 05550 32960 (point)
Map sheet NB03SE
Island Lewis
Parish UIG, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NB03SE 13.04 0555 3296

(previously recorded as NB03SE 15)
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 August 1997

325
NB 0555 3302 10 metres OD
Mill
Part of an extended mill complex with monuments 324, with associated channels and sluice. The mill measures 5.0 x 5.0 metres and has a hint of an internal scarcement.
Field walking 08.4.95 OS Present edition 1:10 000
Burgess and Church 1996, 81-2

9m north of lade 1, alongside a partially canalised stream feeding into the west side of the lade to the south, lay the remains ofa sub-rectangular mill (Mill 2). Constructed of drystone gneiss boulders, the walls stood up to 0.9m high and 0.6m thick, meausring 4.7m east to west and 4.4m north to south. An internal subcircular wheelhouse measured 2m across, with a through channel from northeast to southwest measuring up to 0.5m wide. Feeding into the mill 2 was a second, embanked late (late 2) running on a curvilinear alignment to the northeast for 10.13m to terminate at NB 05546 32975, where it connected with the stream snaking through the entire complex of mills.
Fyles 2006, 13


Christopher Burgess and Michael Church, 1996, Uig Landscape Survey: Interim Report 1 (Unpublished document). SWE41181.

Chris Fyles, SUAT Ltd, 2006, Archaeological Walkover Survey, Gisla, Isle of Lewis (Unpublished document). SWE41200.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Unpublished document: Christopher Burgess and Michael Church. 1996. Uig Landscape Survey: Interim Report 1.
  • --- Unpublished document: Chris Fyles, SUAT Ltd. 2006. Archaeological Walkover Survey, Gisla, Isle of Lewis.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (3)

Record last edited

Apr 14 2008 4:19PM

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