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Old Photograph Crofter Carrying Creel Basket Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of a crofter woman carrying a creel basket on the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. A Creel is a wicker basket usually used for carrying fish or peats. It is also the cage used to catch lobsters and other crustaceans. In modern times it has come to mean a range of types of wicker baskets used by anglers or commercial fishermen to hold fish or other prey. The word is also found in agriculture and for some domestic baskets. In the North Sea herring fishing industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the creel was a basket used to measure the volume of a catch. The standard measure were creel which were made in officially approved volumes of one half and one quarter cran. A cran, Gaelic kræn, was a unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 imperial gallons.
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