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Sketch showing view of Culswick broch.
DP 418389
Description Sketch showing view of Culswick broch.
Date 8/1801
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DP 418389
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 53083
Scope and Content Drawing in sketchbook made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Page 19: view titled 'The Brough of Culswick - a Pictish fort, the most entire in the islands. In the distance the island of Valey. Aug 1801'. Looking north-west across a geo to the broch with its outworks, with Vaila in the distance,a sailing boat in the middle distance, and in the foreground a male figure (tamping gunpowder into his shotgun?) and a dog. Pencil and ink.
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 164
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2682263
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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