The site of a feature thought to have been a Bronze Age Bowl Barrow. It consisted of a tumulus believed to be a tree covered, ditchless bowl barrow measuring 7.0 m diameter and 0.6 m high. It was destroyed by ploughing.
A late medieval and early post-medieval "Watch and Ward" beacon or lookout is believed to have been located in this area, at "Cooildarry."
Many of the Watch and Ward posts may well have been maintained on the same site since the medieval period.
The findspot of a scatter of Mesolithic flints, which include 8 Heavy-blade type arrowheads, 2 smaller arrowheads, 2 leaf-shaped arrowheads (1 pressure-flaked), 1 diamond shaped arrowhead, 4 flakes, 1 scraper, 1 awl, and 1 core.
The findspot of a scatter of Mesolithic flints, which include 8 Heavy-blade type arrowheads, 2 smaller arrowheads, 2 leaf-shaped arrowheads (1 pressure-flaked), 1 diamond shaped arrowhead, 4 flakes, 1 scraper, 1 awl, and 1 core.
A large, irregular, grass covered mound which has no clearly defined limit. The diameter of the mound is between 40 and 50 metres and it is up to 4 metres high. An excavation into the surface has shown it is composed of gravel and it is probably a natural feature.
Several lintel graves with human remains were found in 1894 when a drain was being cut near the summit of the steep slope, on the south side of the stream about 640 metres above the highroad where it crosses Glen Wyllin. The discovery was made within the field numbered 934 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. No foundations or trace of walls of an associated chapel or keeill have been found.
It is thought that there is a early medieval chapel or keeill site here, within the field numbered 934 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. Several lintel graves with human remains were found in 1894 when a drain was cut near the summit of the steep slope, on the south side of the stream about 640 metres above the highroad where it crosses Glen Wyllin. No foundations or trace of walls of such a keeill were found.
The ruins of a former corn mill building recorded at Cooilslieu farm. The 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map shows a dam and millpond to the east of the farm buildings.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The mill complex includes the mill itself, orientated E-W, and a grain store which extends from the north side of the mill at the west end. A small annexe on the east gable probably served as a kiln; a miller's house stood just to the NE.
The mill was served by a leat which extends 600m upstream to a substantial weir which draws water from the River Neb. The leat is guarded by a sluice.
The buildings survive intact, except for the miller's house, which was demolished c.2000.
Modern watermill.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The mill itself is orientated east-west. A grain store extends from the north side of the mill at the west end. A small annexe on the east gable probably served as a kiln.
The mill was served by a leat drawing water from the River Neb.
The building survives intact.
Modern mill grain store.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The grain store extends from the north side of the mill at the west end, and is centred at the grid reference provided.
The building survives and is used as an office.
Modern corn drying kiln.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The small annexe on the east gable of the mill probably served as a corn drying kiln.
The building survives intact.
Modern miller's house (site of).
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The miller's house is shown just to the north-east of the mill. It was demolished c. 2000, but the other buildings survive.
Modern mill leat.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
A long leat, some 600m in length, extends upstream to a substantial weir which draws water from the River Neb. The leat is guarded by a sluice, to which the grid reference relates.
The leat survives for almost all of its length, but has been diverted into the River Neb some 50m upstream of the mill, where the outfall is clearly visible.
This four storey building complex has two dominant adjacent structures each with an hipped slate roof fronting onto the main delivery yard and storage warehouse. The sitting is such that it completely fills the depression east of the stream in Laxey Glen.
The exposed stonework of both building facades is articulated by shallow pilaster columns running the full height of the building and linked by flattened curved arches below eaves level. The windows are all arranged regularly between these columns and the window head treatment echoes the flattened arch expression. The hipped roof of the layer of the two structures does not extend over the last two bays toward the stream which are also cut through by a large driveway at the ground floor. The roof is also punctuated by large revolving ventilators.
The rear of the structures are completely covered with a system of corrugated panels of unflattering appearance. No internal inspection was made. The front facade appears in good repair. The building has significance as a large Victorian industrial structure of well disciplined proportions and robust construction given over 190 years of very heavy use. However only the front facade is of particular merit and perhaps fortunately is also the only part of the building which can be seen from almost any angle.
This is an inaccessible site which was planned by L.S.Garrad. It consists of a flat area, measuring 41.5 metres by 23.5 metres, bounded by a bank. The site is marked on the 25 inch map. The site is traditionally said to have been a place of refuge from attacks by Danish raiders, but it may be an animal pound.
