General view of croft

Description General view of croft

Date 11/8/1882

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

Catalogue Number SC 746099

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1682

Scope and Content Achtriochtan, Glen Coe, Highland Glen Coe, a wild and rugged valley that runs from the Moor of Rannoch in the east to Loch Leven on the west coast, is the most celebrated glen in Scotland, both for its historical associations and for its magnificent mountain scenery. This photograph of an isolated croft beside a stream in the glen was taken by Erskine Beveridge in 1882. This small cottage, built in a traditional architectural style found in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, is a simple stone-built dwelling with a thatched roof. Its distinctive features are the hip-ended roof and the overhanging eaves of thatch that form a fringe around the wall-top. The walls are solidly built of undressed, irregular stones, held together without mortar, and the roof is thatched with heather, moor grass or bracken, secured by a network of ropes stretched across the roof. The top of a short chimney, rising above a fireplace in the end wall, barely emerges from the end of the roof ridge, another distinctive feature of this type of building. Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920), writer, antiquarian and linen manufacturer, had a private income which allowed him to indulge his passion for photography. In the late 19th century, Beveridge travelled widely with his camera, photographing many of the old cottages in the isolated glens of the Highlands of Scotland, and provided a unique photographic record of a form of living and working that is very old. In 1923, his son, John Henry Beveridge, produced a collection of many of these landscapes in 'Wanderings with a Camera 1882-98', published after his father's death. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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