Tour Scotland Video Of Men Making A Gellie In Fife

Tour Scotland video of men making a gelly or gellie at the Travelling People and Gypsy Festival at Lochore Meadows Country Park, Fife, Scotland. A gellie is a bothy or dwelling made from natural material. Highland Travellers are closely tied to the native Highlands, and many traveller families carry clan names like Macfie, Stewart, MacDonald, Cameron, Williamson and Macmillan. They follow a nomadic or settled lifestyle; passing from village to village and are more strongly identified with the native Gaelic speaking population. Continuing their nomadic life, they would live on rough ground on the edge of the village and earn money there as tinsmiths, hawkers, horse dealers or fishing for pearls. Many found seasonal employment on farms, e.g. at the berry picking or during harvest.

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Tour Scotland Video Basket Maker

Tour Scotland video of a basket maker at the Travelling People and Gypsy Festival at Lochore Meadows Country Park, Fife, Scotland. Basketry or basket weaving is one of the oldest traditional crafts in Scotland. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, crofting families in the Highlands and Islands made tightly woven grass containers to store grain and meal, and creel baskets for carrying heavy loads such as fuel, manure, crops and other goods. The first settlers who arrived in the Hebrides 9,000 years ago made long fishing baskets out of willow to catch fish.

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Photograph Climber Suilven Mountain Scotland

Photograph of a climber on Suilven mountain in Sutherland, Scotland. This is one of the most distinctive mountains in Scotland. Lying in a remote area in the west of Sutherland, it rises almost vertically from a wilderness landscape of moorland, bogs and lochans. The highest point, known as Caisteal Liath, the Grey Castle in Scottish Gaelic, lies at the northwest end of this ridge. There are two other summits: Meall Meadhonach, Round Middle Hill, at the central point of the ridge is 723 m high, whilst Meall Beag, Round Little Hill, lies at the southeastern end.

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Photograph Of The National Flag Of Scotland

Photograph of the national flag of Scotland. The Flag of Scotland, also known as the Saint Andrew's Cross or more commonly The Saltire, is the national flag of Scotland. As the national flag, the Saltire differs from the Royal Standard of Scotland in that it is the Saltire which is the correct flag for all individuals and corporate bodies to fly in order to demonstrate both their loyalty and Scottish nationality.

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Tour Scotland Photograph River Coupall Falls Scotland

Tour Scotland photograph of the River Coupall Falls and Buachaile Etive Mor, Glencoe, Scotland. Glencoe is the spiritual home of many a mountaineer and hill walker. Although the English author, Charles Dickens called it " perfectly terrible, an awful place, scores of glens high up, which form such haunts as you might imagine yourself wandering in, the very height and madness of a fever ", it provides some of the finest climbing and walking terrain in Scotland.



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