Detail of grain-dressing machine See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 5 Digital image of C 61103

Description Detail of grain-dressing machine See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 5 Digital image of C 61103

Date 17/8/1995

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738269

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 61103

Scope and Content Grain dressing machine, 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 farm's grain dressing machine. This wooden machine was used after the barley and oats had been threshed to clean the grain. The original threshing machine itself and its waterwheel has been removed, but from the remaining pieces it can be supposed that the machine would have been much like the ones made by Mortars of Errol, Perthshire. The existing machine was installed in the mid-1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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