Friday 2 June 2017

Phoebe Roze II


Three prints celebrating three parts of a crofters day - the dawn, the shieling, the ceilidh, by Phoebe Roze 




5 comments:

  1. What is the shieling, please?

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  2. Hello Lesley
    A shieling is a hut or collection of huts in a remote part of Scotland. in this context it was where the families would move with the flocks to summer pasture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shieling

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  3. That's interesting, thanks. I always thought that sort of hut was called a bothy but it seems a bothy was used for lone shepherds or for men working on landed estates, rather than for families following the sheep in summer.

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