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MHG34877 - Lochan Dubh Nan Cailleach

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NG87SW 29 8124 7359

Two buildings, a mill-lade and a possible mill, situated on the outlet of the Lochan Dubh nan Cailleach, were recorded during a pre-afforestation survey by J Wordsworth. The larger building, measuring 10m by 5m overall with 1m high drystone walls, lies on a bracken and birch-clad terrace beside the burn. The entrance is in the centre of the W wall. A second building, measuring 6m by 3m, lies 10m to the SE.
The mill-lade, defined by a drystone wall and a 1m wide, 0.5m deep channel, extends NW from a natural hollow which may once have been dammed, although no traces survive of such a structure. What may be the site of the wheel-pit of the mill, represented by a sudden deepening of the lade to c.2m, lies about 30m NW of the larger building. No trace of any adjoining structure could be seen in an area of dense bracken.
A substantial earth bank, up to 2m wide and 1m high, extends along the W bank of the burn leading from the loch. It crosses the burn where the lade commences, although it does not appear to be part of a mill dam. A drystone dyke extending into the loch is possibly the continuation opf this feature.
J Wordsworth (Wordsworth Archaeological Services) 5 October 1997; NMRS MS 961/23, nos.15-16

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Grid reference	Centred NG 8123 7359 (30m by 30m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG87SW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	GAIRLOCH

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