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Appendix 2: Previous Work 2.1. Taynish Mill, RCHAMS NR 737849 June 1985 The overgrown ruin of this corn-mill is situated in a sheltered hollow 80m from the NW shore of Loch Sween and 2.1km NNE of Taynish House (No.182). It is reached by a track branching from the Taynish estate-road 330m to the NNW, which in its final descent to the mill is revetted on the SE by a massive wall up to 4m in height. About 130m N of the mill this track and its NE boundary-wall formed a low dam blocking the marshy outflow of Lochan Taynish; the wall incorporated a sluice-gate, from which the mill-lade flowed in a lintelled culvert below the track. Mill dam Lade sluice gate 17
The mill is not identifiable in 17th-century documents relating to the Taynish estate. An obligation dated 1724 refers to the mills of Ross and Duntaynish, and the two mills were associated in 1779, when John MacNeill was ‘miller of the milns of Ross and Taynish’. It was still in operation in 1867, when a ‘neat slated dwelling house and Corn Mill attached’ were described. It is said to have been abandoned about 1886, and a drawing of that date shows that the kiln had already lost most of its roofing-slates. The original building was very similar in layout to that at Aironn (No, 227) but a little larger, measuring 11.1m from NE to SW by 7.7m over rubble-built walls varying from 0.7m to 1m in thickness. In the NE gable-wall there was a loading-door 2.5m wide, whose arch has now collapsed; this is shown as blocked in the 1886 drawing, which also indicates a doorway, now vanished, at the adjacent end of the SE wall. Loading-door arch spring Pier 18
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Page 5 and 6: Ardfern Ford N W E Carnassarie S Ki
Page 7 and 8: There is now no discernable trace o
Page 9 and 10: Two limited excavations had previou
Page 11 and 12: edge of a cobbled surface was revea
Page 13 and 14: y scrap merchants. Prior to this th
Page 15 and 16: [004] Layer. Thin layer of dark bro
Page 17 and 18: Pier/pillar base [015] [016] Surfac
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Page 23 and 24: Ground floor door into kiln Insulat
Page 25 and 26: Access to the kiln floor was by an
Page 27 and 28: 2.3 Initial draft, compiled by Chri
Page 29 and 30: There is now probably more cause fo
Page 31 and 32: Kiln from NW Drying chamber Extract
Page 33 and 34: Appendix 3: Finds List Contex No Tr
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