Old Photograph Casting Peats Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter Casting Peats on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Peat casting, or cutting, was usually carried out in the month of May with a spade called a Tushkar. Crofting, the farming of small plots of land on a legally restricted tenancy basis, is still practised and is viewed as a key Shetland tradition as well as an important source of income. Fishing remains central to the islands' economy today. Mackerel makes up more than half of the catch in Shetland by weight and value, and there are significant landings of haddock, cod, herring, whiting, monkfish and shellfish.



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