Rhiannon wrote:
Does this look like anything interesting, to those that know about such things?
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/430565
The RCAHMS record doesn't want to pick a date. There's various stories about it being somewhere to weigh wool. but then 'thirl' seems to have something to do with milling grain. It's on the boundary (where it changes direction). Just strikes me as a lot of effort to go to.
Hello Rhiannon , thirl can mean a hole /aperture ,which would fit the bill here . According to the name book it was used to hold scales at a fair held at the spot . Seeing as it is besides a path/boundary it may also have held some form of marker post . Doesn't look like RA and there is very little in the area . http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/430565
The RCAHMS record doesn't want to pick a date. There's various stories about it being somewhere to weigh wool. but then 'thirl' seems to have something to do with milling grain. It's on the boundary (where it changes direction). Just strikes me as a lot of effort to go to.
