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Interior. Selection of wooden shovels (sheils). Digital image of A 33438.
SC 738376
Description Interior. Selection of wooden shovels (sheils). Digital image of A 33438.
Date 1984
Catalogue Number SC 738376
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 33438
Scope and Content Wooden shovels, Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, East Lothian Glenkinchie Distillery was established in 1837 by brothers John and George Rate, who went bankrupt in 1853 leading to the closure of the site and its reuse as a cowshed. In 1880 the Glen Kinchie Distillery Company rebuilt the premises, and production began once more. The floor maltings were last used in 1968, and now house a museum of malting. The distillery continues to produce whisky for Haig's blends. This shows three wooden shovels, or 'sheils' in the maltings museum. These tools would have been used to turn malt germinating on the floor of the maltings. The sheils have wooden blades to ensure they do not cut the delicate grains as they sprout. Turning malt by hand with ploughs and sheils was hard work, often resulting in a repetitive strain injury known as 'monkey shoulder'. Saladin boxes (invented in 19th-century France) with motorised malt-turners, and more modern drum maltings and combined germinating and drying kilns have now replaced most traditional floor maltings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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