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Wind-powered threshing-machine site recorded
Westray, Pierowall, The Links, Wind-Engine was recorded as a wind-powered farm-machine site associated with a threshing machine.
Site overview
Westray, Pierowall, The Links, Wind-Engine was a wind-powered agricultural machine site near Pierowall. It was associated with a threshing machine rather than with a conventional tower corn windmill.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Westray, Pierowall, The Links, Wind-Engine was a former wind-powered farm-machine site at The Links, Pierowall on Westray in Orkney. The site is recorded as a windmill, engine and threshing-machine site. It formed part of the wider Orkney pattern of small wind engines used to drive agricultural machinery, especially threshing machines.
No secure construction date, maker, detailed machinery inventory, ownership sequence, survival condition, or final operating date has been established.
Timeline
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Orkney Sites and Monuments Record; Orkney industrial heritage report