Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe and the town of Stromness. It's possible that Unstan was in use well into the second millennium BC; an arrowhead was discovered in the tomb that is characteristic of the Beaker People who lived from the Late Neolithic into the Bronze Age.
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Old photograph of crofters burning kelp on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Seaweed was gathered and laid out to dry before being burned in a kelp kiln. Kelp making was the changing or conversion of seaweed into ash, which was used in many things, particularly the production of soda and iodine.
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Old photograph of whales on the shore in Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started in the Middle Ages, and by the 1750s most Scottish ports were whaling, with the Edinburgh Whale Fishing Company being founded in 1749. The last company still engaged in whaling was Christian Salvesen, which exited the industry in 1963. Although whaling in now considered to be a controversial trade, for many centuries it was a vital element of the Scottish economy.
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