General view of farmstead with house and byre to the left, and a cart-shed to the right.

Description General view of farmstead with house and byre to the left, and a cart-shed to the right.

Date 15/9/1883

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 742964

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1730

Scope and Content Farmstead, Glen Scaddle, Argyll & Bute Glen Scaddle, an isolated mountain valley in the Ardgour peninsula, runs from Loch Linnhe in the east towards Loch Shiel in the west. A farmstead in the glen was photographed in 1883 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The farmhouse (left) is a single-storeyed, three-bayed, drystone-walled building with a thatched roof supported by cruck framing, a type of wooden-framed construction. The field (centre) has been harvested, and the sheaves of straw arranged into groups (stooks), and stood on end to dry. The small thatched building (right), with the roof weighted down with stones, is probably a corn-drying kiln. Cruck framing, where pairs of wooden cruck trusses support the roof, was a construction common throughout most of Scotland in the 18th and early 19th centuries, except in areas like Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles where timber was scarce. The lower ends of the cruck blades rested on the base of the rubble stone walls, providing a sound foundation and preventing rotting on damp soil. The upper portion of the wooden framework was covered with turf as an underlay for thatch. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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