Scar Steading: General view showing boiler house, threshing mill, granary and house from W. Digital image of D 3349 CN

Description Scar Steading: General view showing boiler house, threshing mill, granary and house from W. Digital image of D 3349 CN

Date 10/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738842

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3349 CN

Scope and Content Scar Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, showing boiler house, threshing mill, granary and house from west Scar is a coastal farm on Sanday, an island of the Orkney group. Sanday is low-lying with only a few trees and low hills to shelter it from the wind. It has good soils derived from flagstones of the Old Red Sandstone age and a climate favourable to the island's agricultural economy. This shows part of the extensive complex of farm buildings. The engine and boiler house are on the left with the cistern (water storage tank) in front and a pump house and chimney alongside. The long low buildings to the right are the threshing barn and the granary which lead towards the farmhouse on the far right. The first successful threshing mill in Scotland was patented in 1786 by Andrew Meikle but they are not recorded in Orkney until the 1820s. James Scarth, a factor and prominent local advocate of agricultural improvement, lived at Scar, and had a fixed steam engine for threshing installed there by the 1870s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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