View of SE of sheep fold and covered dipping shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4019/9

Description View of SE of sheep fold and covered dipping shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4019/9

Date 27/4/1994

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 742189

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 4019/9

Scope and Content Sheep fold and dipping shed, Tongue Mains Farm, Highland, from south-east Tongue Mains steading was built on the huge Sutherland estate which, by 1873, comprised almost 1.3 million acres, more than 90% of the county. It was built in 1843 to a design by Sir Charles Barry adapted by Alexander Coupar and was intended for use with the nearby Tongue House. This is a view of the sheep fold and covered dipping shed from the south-east. The sheep fold has a concrete and flagstone floor and wooden boundary fences, and would have been used to gather and control sheep during dipping. Farmers have dipped sheep for many centuries, but smearing is now a thing of the past where sheep were coated with a mixture of tar and antiseptics, not only to prevent disease, but to waterproof them. Streams were widened to make sheep washes to wash out the mixture prior to shearing. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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