Mills in Altoaragón - harinero

Fuendecampo

Fuendecampo is on the road from L'Ainsa to Campo. It is signposted.
Enter the village and take the left branch: park the car on the square. Find the old path (and dirt-road) on the south-end of the village. It will bring you to the mill. You can also work your way to the river and follow the bed downstream (westward). The mill is in the center of the circle on the map right (map 212 of the Spanish Instituto Geográfico y Catastral - 2a edición 1952). The mill is on the Río Lanata.

All pictures: 21.XII.1998

The mill is a humble construction not very conspicious in the eroded landscape so typical for the Río Lanata. The following pictures show the mill (clockwise) from the south-east (clearly illustrating how it is almost burried below the fields), the south (showing how it is almost only roof), the west (where the living-room has collapsed) and the north-east (showing how the mill is dominated by its reservoir).

	The wall of the embalse is imposing: about 0.5 m thick and as heigh as the mill's roof. The balsa is now the home of a healthy swamp vegetation and it was a hard job freeing the walls for an inside view. The saetín was below a thick cover of mud. (I wonder if we shouldn't consider taking a spade with us?) The size of the reservoir is not less impressive.
			The waterpond freed from the reed

The size of the reservoir is not less impressive. An expedition member set out for a walk to the other side of the lake to give an indication of the dimensions. The white spot below the red arrow is an adult person. The picture (right) is taken from next to the tree on the previous image.

And now for the cárcavo.

We needed quite some time before finding the place of the outlet hidden as it was below a thick layer of bramble next to the collapsed section of the mill. The cárcavo was empty (at least on top of the silt). An open canal led to the river some fifty meters away.

The workfloor is in disarray: nothing much interesting left. The walls and the roof of this part are still very solid. The other room is down to the floor. I think it was used as a living-room or kitchen, because we found a drain to the outlet channel.

Nice to notice: the northface of the roof is covered with tiles. The other side carries the flat stones, typical for the region.


	Roof with tiles: northface		Date on wall 19 january 1909 ?		Azulejo (flour mill) above front door

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