33070: TAIRAVAL – HORIZONTAL MILL (Undated)

Summary:

HORIZONTAL MILL (Undated)
Three horizontal water mills

Location:

NB 1110 3505

Full description:

no. 37
A series of three ‘Norse’ mills are set on the stream running into Loch Linish. These are in a good state of preservation although somewhat less so than the examples on the stream from Loch Bharabhat.
Armit 1992, 57

References:

Ian Armit. 1992. CFA, University of Edinburgh Archaeological Field Survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) Peninsula, Lewis.
1994. ‘Archaeological field survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) peninsula, Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 124. No.37, 90

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.