Monument record MDO2832 - Daw's Mill, West Chelborough

The extensive earthwork in the SE corner of the parish at ST 548040 are the site of Daw's Mill. The mill was leased by Ellis Daw in 1657 but appears to have been disused by 1765 as it does not appear on Isaac Taylor's county map.
Surveyed (see illustration card).

The site was partly excavated in 1972, the result suggesting that there was a wooden mill at the head of the tail race with an overshot or breastshot wheel served by a channel 1.0m wide. A large mound protected by cobbling protected the mill house, which was probably a cob cottage, since flattened. The associated pottey was mostly from Donyatt. <1>

Full excavation report. <2>

<1> Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, 1973, Post Medieval Archaeology (Serial). SDO18829.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1975, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1974, 19-44 (Serial). SDO74.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (West Chelborough file) (Unpublished document). SDO18828.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 882464 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 18 2022 9:33AM