Water mill

Southern mills 1 and 4 are dated to Phase 3 and were fed by four mill-races of Phase 3 or earlier, from two watercourses. One watercourse ran S and E (L 119m) from a possible pond in low wet ground to the W of the ridge. Southern mills 2 and 3 date to Phase 3 or earlier but their undercrofts are largely removed. Two tailraces ran NW from Southern mill 4. The stoney deposit underlying Southern mill 5 sealed an undercroft (dims 2.3m NE-SW; 3.3m NW-SE; D 0.4m) with a flat base of Southern mill 3, but it is not possible to identify which millraces it might be associated with. The rectangular cut was filled with a basal layer of gravel overlain by a thin dark brown organic clay which was beneath a layer of gravel. The remains of stone walls survived at NW (L 1.1m) and SE (L 1m) overlain by a layer of brown organic silty clay that contained a pivot stone and fragments of oak timbers. Everything was sealed by the metaled surface of the Southern mill 5 undercroft. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 74-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 December 2021