Summary
This site consists of two compartments lying either side of a stone-lined channel
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Monument Types
- MILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
This site consists of two compartments lying either side of a stone-lined channel carrying water from the reservoir upstream (48219). The compartment to the south contains a window in the highest surviving southern wall. The entrance to this room was not located with precision but may lie in the south-eastern corner. A wall coming off from the south western corner turns into a lynchet as it makes its way south and continues for an unknown length. The northern room appears to be open-ended to the north.
The ruins of the mill, to judge from the evidence of garden shrubs in the vicinity, may have been utilised as a garden feature in more recent times.
Keating (1957) states that two large quern stones were found in the ruins if this structure in 1950 and that the inner wall of the forecourt of the estate house was found to contain a layer of spilt quern stones. She also says that tow families in the area were exempt from the prevailing requirement to mill corn at Neigwl and were allowed to mill at Rhiw. The dating and source of these claims remains unclear but would seem to pre-date or immediately post-date the English conquest
References
- SZO50045 - National Trust Report: Sean Taylor. 2000. Plas yn Rhiw - The National Trust Archaeological Survey.
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Other Statuses and References
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Associated Events
- ENA2969 - Field Survey, Plas yn Rhiw - The National Trust Archaeological Survey 2000
Associated Finds
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