Interior: View of box bed. Digital image of D 3439

Description Interior: View of box bed. Digital image of D 3439

Date 10/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 739094

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3439

Scope and Content Possible box bed, Warsetter Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands Warsetter is a fine, well-preserved example of a characteristic 19th-century Orcadian steading. Out of use since the 1980s, the steading has altered little and been well-maintained. Warsetter lies on the highest point of Sanday, one of the largest of the Orkney Islands. This shows what looks like a wooden box bed. If so, it was likely to have been in the kitchen wing of the farmhouse, in the grieve's house, which was part of the steading complex, or one of the workers' cottages nearby at what became known locally as 'Streetsetter'. The last of these two-roomed cottages was abandoned in the 1970s. Box beds were common to much of Scotland in increasing numbers from the end of the 18th century. They might be in a kitchen or used to divide one part of a cottage from another. Whole families were known to sleep in such beds which could be screened off by a curtain or by wooden sliding doors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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