From New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire
This bundle of fir splinters is from New Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire. It dates from the 19th century.
Bundle of fir splinters, from New Pitsligo
People relied on natural resources for lighting which was achieved by having a big heap of carefully prepared bog-fir splinters full of resin all ready for burning. Thus the women could see to card and spin and the men to make their herring-nets by hand.
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