Coll, Grishipoll. View of house.
SC 740707
Description Coll, Grishipoll. View of house.
Date c. 1898
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 740707
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 1657
Scope and Content Cottage at Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll & Bute Coll, a low, flat island with a bleak landscape of weathered outcrops of rock, lies north-west of Mull, some 25km from Tobermory. The Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge, visited Coll c.1898, and provided one of the oldest known photographic records of the island. This single-roomed, rubble-built house with thick, rounded walls, was one of the traditional cottages found on the island. It retains its thatched roof, anchored by a fringe of stone weights, and strengthened by a network of ropes twisted from grass or straw, and tied over the thatch. The position of the chimney-stack points to the location of the hearth with the house. Because the island is flat, and the winds strong, the walls of the cottage are immensely thick, and double-skinned with sand as an infilling between the outer and inner walls. The thatch was probably heather, strong and durable and capable of lasting a generation or two before needing to be replaced. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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