Old photograph of a crofter making a basket for carrying peat in Scotland. Crofts, once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland, were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia, America, Australia, and beyond.
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