Coll, Grishipoll. View of house.
AG 1657
Description Coll, Grishipoll. View of house.
Date c. 1898
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number AG 1657
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 740707
Scope and Content Cottage at Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll & Bute Coll, a low, flat island with a bleak landscape of weathered outcrops of rock, lies north-west of Mull, some 25km from Tobermory. The Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge, visited Coll c.1898, and provided one of the oldest known photographic records of the island. This single-roomed, rubble-built house with thick, rounded walls, was one of the traditional cottages found on the island. It retains its thatched roof, anchored by a fringe of stone weights, and strengthened by a network of ropes twisted from grass or straw, and tied over the thatch. The position of the chimney-stack points to the location of the hearth with the house. Because the island is flat, and the winds strong, the walls of the cottage are immensely thick, and double-skinned with sand as an infilling between the outer and inner walls. The thatch was probably heather, strong and durable and capable of lasting a generation or two before needing to be replaced. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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