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Treasured Places
Date 10 August 2007
Event ID 546258
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/546258
Tall kipper-kilns, such as Kippering House in Wick, were once common features in the herring-fishing areas of Caithness. Producing kippered herrings required splitting, washing and pickling the fish prior to smoking them. 'Smokers' then climbed rungs of horizontal rails in the kiln and hung tenter-sticks, loaded with the fish, onto them. Smoking the fish took between six and twelve hours.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 10 August 2007
Hay, G D and Stell, G P 1986
