It is one of the very few ones that keep its name of Andalusí origin (Banu Arusa); this, together with documentary references allows us to establish its origin before Castilian Conquest of the 13th century.
It was set up in connection to a great squared tower crowned with a battlemented terrace roof. In its front parte, there is a porch, a room used like loading and downloading area of grain and flour.
It is a two-bucket mill, fed during its former working period by the water coming from the Fountain "del Piojo", not very far away at the surroundings of the road to Utrera.
Middle Ages documents tell us that "aceña" was the generic word to refer to the mills, so almost all the references to the Guadaíra mills make reference to "aceñas" or water mills.
The most populated human settlement of the present-day surroundings of Alcalá. We have been left one of the most important archaeological sites of Western Europe, with remains of villages and burials from the Chalcolithic period to the Roman time.