Old Photograph Crofter Carrying Peat Basket Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofter carrying a Peat basket on Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Little is known of the history of the peoples of the Hebrides before the 6th century as they, like the rest of Scotland, were in the depths of what centuries later became known as the Dark Ages. The first written records of the islands come with the arrival of Saint Columba in the 6th century. It was this Irish Scottish saint who first brought Christianity to the islands, founding several churches.



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