6 The Western Lowthers Sanquhar to Wanlockhead Kist maker: Max Nowell Design taken from: Waterwheel from Wanlockhead lead-mine Date: 225 years ago The waterwheel is reconstructed from a drawing of Wanlockhead made by John Clerk of Eldin in 1775. Although its main structure looks similar to the beam of the engine that is still to be seen in the village, it would have operated in a slightly different way. Water to drive it would probably have been collected in a cistern on the hillside and piped down to fill the buckets in the wheel, to turn it just like the familiar mill wheel. Like the beam engine (which was operated by filling a bucket at one end of the beam, which then sank, and discharged the water at the bottom of its descent, to rise again for another stroke) it was a pumping engine,

Max Nowell Stone Dyker & Sculptor Larbreck Farm Irongray DUMFRIES DG2 9SF 01387 730476

Max Nowell has worked on dry-stone and masonry projects in this country and abroad, including several for Andy Goldsworthy and other European clients. He accepts commissions for creative stone works of any kind, as well as working as a stone-carver. His kist blends cleverly into the landscape. It will test your powers of observation to the full.