Arran Industry - Cloth Traditional Cache

By the Monamore Burn a fulling mill was built was built in the 1770s, the remains of which can still be seen in the walls of the outbuilding behind the house called Dye Mill. The flow of the Monamore Burn was controlled by two weirs; one at the outflow from the Urie Loch up on the hill, 400m above sea level, behind the site and a second a little above the Forestry Commission car park. From the lower weir a mill lade ran down to the Dye Mill where it was used both to dye the cloth and to turn the wheel that operated the wooden hammers which beat the finished cloth (fulling). Fulling works are normally associated with tenter grounds where the fulled cloth is dried prior to hot pressing but there is no record of where these were.

As you will find the cache location has a double link to the woolen cloth manufacturing on Arran, but you will have to spot the link yourselves.