As you can see we seem to have a ghost in our cellar, and he’s not happy.
Engineer Jansen discovered this by fingering some loose stones, and even taking one out, worried about the state of the wall. To his surprise there was nothing behind the removed stone. More stones were loose, and quickly removed:
It could be the long lost tunnel to Kirrin Island!
But no, it is not a tunnel. Our cellar has a black hole in it!
The black is soot, as we soon found out, having it on hands and clothes.
Soot? From fire?
Did they have a fire in the cellar?
Is there a chimney? (No, I think, at least not any more.)
What on earth do you use a fire in a cellar for? Asked the question in the facebook forum for Spanish Molinos, ACEM - Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos but so far no answer.
As far as I know this cellar was not for storage, but there were parts of the machinery here. Cogs and belts and wheels. Maybe they needed a bit of fire for softening grease for the bearings?
The left gap could well have been the storage space for firewood or even coal:
Perhaps we will never know.
We decided to not plaster over any weird holes in the cellar (...) and keep them accessible for posterity. The black hole will have a sheet of plexiglass or something.
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