South Voe Croft Museum View of corn-kiln and croft
SC 463725
Description South Voe Croft Museum View of corn-kiln and croft
Date 8/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 463725
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Croft House Museum, Southvoe, Shetland This museum was created in the 1970s from the buildings of a 19th century croft. These consist of a house and steading range, with a corn-drying kiln and barn, and three horizontal mills, one completely restored and another re-roofed. This view shows a corn-drying kiln and barn beside the two-storey slated house which supplanted the older thatched house. The kilnand barn are, like the house, larger and more substantial than their predecessors. This type of corn-drying kiln is a rare survival in Shetland, though relatively common in Orkney. They had a fire at the base, and a perforated floor above, on which the corn to be dried was spread. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/73/8
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