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| BU Number | BU0060 |
|---|---|
| Village | Kalliana |
| Related BUs | BU0068 BU0061 BU0123 BU0071 BU0064 |
| Easting | 490417.00 |
| Northing | 3874555.00 |
| Elevation | 528 |
| Source | GPS |
| BU Summary | Water mill, Kalliana; used for grinding fish meal. Irregularly coursed basalt and lime construction, with limestone quoins. 3 machines in millhouse powered by single turbine. Date of construction |
| Location | cadastral XXVII.5 W2 |
| Vegetation | fruit trees, beans and crops |
| Access | Tarred road towards village center |
| Associated Land | Houses east and west, side-road east and north. |
| Habitable | Yes |
| Occupied | No |
| Stability | III |
| Foundation | irregular basalt courses |
| Walls | irregular basalt courses |
| Interior Plaster | cemented trough |
| Exterior Plaster | lime on penstock base |
| Openings | 5 |
| Ceiling | cement slab |
| Floors | cement |
| Roofs | cement slab |
| Eaves | cement |
| Building Type | Water mill |
| Structure Type | stone walls and cement slab |
| Current Use | to grind fish meal |
| Past Use | wheat, barley, cotton, beans, peas, sesame grinding mill |
| Structure Name | Mylos tou Mylti |
| Special Features | 3 grinding machines - 2 horizontal mill stones for grain and cereal grinding, 1 metal vertical wheel for cotton cleaning wheel. Inscription on Miltis mill weir on metal plaque: 'Michanougeion (foundry) O 'Atlas'E- ChagapakouLefkosia' |
| Moderations/Alterations | Cement trough of leat over road. Made by British (according to Mrs. Shizas) when road was widened. This road was the main Troodos road (1901?). Tiered corbels under leat, in dressed limestone ashlar & similar quoins at butressed walls under leat added |
| Description | 3 machines housed in mill house, moved by only one wheel turbine situated in vault under mill house floor. This rotates the axle placed along the mill room against the south wall. Metal wheels on axle are thus rotated and canvas belts adjusted around the metal wheels rotate the mill stones (or in the case of the cotton machine, over the metal vertical wheel). Thus with only one blade and only water-power, 3 machines could function simultaneously. Kopsa:Takes water from main aqueduct to the south, at a much higher ground level (approx. 5.50m higher). Stone cemented channel leading from the main 1953 cemented aqueduct reaches drop in ground after about 20m where it branches, beside disused mill (BU0061). Western branch leads water into a cement leat which travels over the road and towards the penstock which is to the north of the road. Penstock (hopper type) has sloping base and sits onto the mill house roof-slab. Penstock built of irregular courses of rough basalt with lime pointing and dressed limestone quoins on inner sides bordering on road, same as base of water canal. 7 stepped corbels in limestone & cemented over support cement leat agianst penstock and canal base opposite penstock. Mill-house is a corner building built of courses of rough basalt, unplastered, with concrete lintels over openings. Pointed arched outflow situated under mill house at west end. Outflow leads into main channel which turns westwards and which branches into two about 100m at Moirasia of Kalliana.Miltis also owned 2 paternal mills at Kato Amiantos. The millstones of the mill by the bridge, (according to present day owners of mill in Kato Amiantos) were transferred to the mill in Kalliana.Sketch on file , simple dimensions, as per the table above not very meaningful as this is a mill complex. |
| Ownership | Greek Cypriot |
| Owner | Myltiades Mylonas (builder, died). Now Pambos Mylonas, fish breeder. |
| Date | 1947-1990 |
| Period 1100 | No |
| Period 1601 | No |
| Period 1701 | No |
| Period 1801 | No |
| Period 1851 | No |
| Period 1901 | Yes |
| Period 1951 | Yes |
| Oral Information | Disused 8-9 years. Mill built by owner himself, without help of engineers. Machinery from Kythraea (Tchirk'a) where there were also lots of mills. Mill set up in 1947-50, with wheat-grinding mill stones from France (The first to be imported). Cost CP 500 to set up. Myltis was good with all types of machinery. Mill was also 'havrikas' ie cotton factory. But the first cotton mill (now in ruins) was the one adjacent and to the north of this mill, fed from same water source but easternmost branch of secondary canal. Information from MR. Nicos Shizas (tel 02 922497) who also knows about water rights. Also, Eirene Damianou. Information on mill stones from Mr. Styllis Stylianides, owner of Evrichou mill. |
| Recorded By | SEZ |
| Recorded Date | 24/7/2001 00:00:00 |
| Entered By | SEZ |
| Entered Date | 29/7/2001 00:00:00 |