View of walled garden, entrance gate and kiln from SW. Digital image of C 78233

Description View of walled garden, entrance gate and kiln from SW. Digital image of C 78233

Date 8/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738973

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 78233

Scope and Content Walled garden, entrance gate and kiln from south-west, Tresness Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands Tresness was a mixed arable and livestock farm on Sanday, one of the largest of the Orkney Islands. Sanday is low-lying and has fertile soils and a temperate climate favourable to the local agricultural economy. Tresness ceased to be a working farm in the 1950s. This shows the walled garden formed by the walls of the various farm offices such as the drying kiln, on the right of the arched entrance gateway, the turnip store, byre, fuel store and the farmhouse. There are almost no trees on Sanday and only a few low hills to shelter it from the wind. Drying grain in a kiln hardened it, making it easier to grind. Grain might also need to be dried if it was too moist or had failed to ripen properly during Orkney's short summer season. Drying grain in kilns also stopped the seed from germinating which was part of the process of making ale. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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