from Weydale, Caithness
This cradle is typically Scottish. The hood is made from a single piece of wood, cut half of the way through at one inch intervals and bent round. In use plaited wool might have been tied across the pegs at each side to hold in the baby underneath.
The base-board is a modern replacement and two pegs are missing.
Cradles were often for daytime use only, the baby sleeping with its mother at night.
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