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Windmill site recorded at Burness
Sanday, Scar, Burness was recorded as a windmill site at Scar in the Burness area of Sanday.
Site overview
Sanday, Scar, Burness was a windmill site at Scar in the Burness area of Sanday. The available evidence records the site as a windmill but does not establish its construction date, form or working history.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Sanday, Scar, Burness was a former windmill site at Scar in the Burness area of Sanday in Orkney. The site is recorded as a windmill of unassigned period. It appears in wider Orkney windmill lists as Scar Mill, Burness and is identified as a post mill, but the surviving condition and original form are not securely described in the available evidence.
No secure construction date, machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, survival condition, or final operating date has been established.
Timeline
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Orkney Sites and Monuments Record; Scottish Windmills: A Survey; Orkney industrial heritage report