View showing former silage pit (NC 5324 1490) from NW See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 2 Digital image of C 61100
SC 738266
Description View showing former silage pit (NC 5324 1490) from NW See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 2 Digital image of C 61100
Date 17/8/1995
Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey
Catalogue Number SC 738266
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 61100
Scope and Content Former silage pit, Shinness Steading, Highland Shinness Steading was built on the huge Sutherland estate which, by 1873, comprised almost 1.3m acres, more than 90% of the county. Shinness was originally a sheep farm, but between 1872 and 1877, the land was drained to create four new arable farms and in 1882 new buildings were erected at Shinness itself. This shows the remains of the farm's silage pit from the north-west, with the threshing barn above. The pit has a porch above it built of stone with a corrugated iron roof. The double door which originally opened into the pit is now covered by the modern, metal-built implement shed to the right of the picture. The pit was 2.15m deep and lined on three sides with red 'plastic' clay bricks. A silage pit was a particularly innovative idea as most such pits were not built until after 1883. It is the only silage pit left on the Sutherland Estate, was part of the original farm lay out of 1882, and was used until the 1920s. There was a wooden ramp over the pit which had a concrete floor. The silage was used as fertiliser for the crops grown on the farm. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/738266
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish Farm Buildings Survey)
Licence Type: Educational
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]