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Thatched Roof with Heather Ropes, Isle of Skye

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P0109 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Thatched Roof with Heather Ropes, Isle of Skye

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P0109

Creator(s): Chapman, John

Site Location(s): Subject - Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom( 57.3, -6.25 )

Date(s): 1975

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/411036

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Media credit University of Leeds

Description

Detail of thatched roof of crofter's blackhouse on the Isle of Skye, tied down with heather ropes and weighted by boulders. The building has been restored and is in use as part of the Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Isle of Skye. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0110.


Originally held in Photo File: Farms - Houses and Buildings.

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Architecture

Blackhouses

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Island of Skye

Scotland

Thatched roofs

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