View of haystacks with mill in background. Digital image of D 3324

Description View of haystacks with mill in background. Digital image of D 3324

Date 13/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738410

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3324

Scope and Content Haystacks and mill, Boloquoy Steading and Mill, Sanday, Orkney Islands This early to mid-19th-century farm complex with its meal mill and parallel byre range are significant survivors of a working farm. In 1996 when this photograph was taken, Boloquoy housed the last working, oil-powered threshing machine on Sanday. This shows a pair of haystacks with the mill in the background (centre). The east elevation of the mill has a central boarded door at ground level with a boarded grain loft door above. There is a window to the left and a small window set close under the eaves to the right. Like much of Orkney, Sanday has good soils overlying flagstones of Old Red Sandstone age. The prevalence of flagstone, easily sliced into thin, but strong slabs, has had a big influence on local construction, not only in walls, but floors and roofs. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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