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Detail of thatched roof showing stone weight and vegetation growth; Giant McAskill Museum, Dunvegan.
DP 241133
Description Detail of thatched roof showing stone weight and vegetation growth; Giant McAskill Museum, Dunvegan.
Date 16/10/2014
Collection Records of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, England
Catalogue Number DP 241133
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Renovated croft building, currently used as a museum dedicated to Angus MacAskill and established in 1989. The roof of the building has a top-coat of straw thatch, with a continuous straw ridge. The thatch is missing in a few patches across the roof, particularly down the skews and along the ridge, exposing what appears to be timber and a corrugated roof covering. Underneath the missing thatch along the ridge, much of the metal ridge beneath can be seen. The roof has been entirely netted, including across the ridge, and weighted at the eaves by stones hung from the netting by wire. There is some vegetation growth in places across the surface of the thatch and patches of thatch missing throughout, exposing the roof structure underneath.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1538472
File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap
Attribution & Restricted Use Summary
Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Collection).
Licence Type: Limited
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