Kirbuster Farm Museum View from SSE showing SSE front and SE corner of corn kiln
SC 459579
Description Kirbuster Farm Museum View from SSE showing SSE front and SE corner of corn kiln
Date 1/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459579
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Steading with corn kiln, Kirbuster Farm Museum, Orkney This is a good example of a steading with a circular corn-drying kiln attached to a small barn. Such kilns were formerly common features of Orkney steadings. This steading is now a farm museum run by Orkney Islands Council. This view shows the kiln with its attached barn. and pigsty. Internally the kiln had a fireplace at the base, with a perforated floor above, on which the grain to be dried was spread. Kilns like this were necessary in Orkney, where it was rarely possible to harvest grain in dry conditions. The main grain crops were oats and a form of barley known as bere. These kilns could also be used for drying malt for home brewing. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/31/5
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