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Summary

Description
English: Cleit for storing food, fuel or hay on St Kilda
Date
Source With nature and a camera
Author Richard Kearton

The author died in 1928 hence more than 70 years ago.

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Note

A Cleit is a stone storage hut or bothy, traditionally found in the Scottish Isles. Many cleits (or cleitean) remain on St Kilda today, but are slowly falling into disrepair.

Cleitean were used to store a wide variety of produce such as :

cured fish, eggs (which were buried in peat ash) feathers, fishing gear, Grains such as wheat, barley and oats, hay, manure peat potatoes ropes, salted lamb, salted seabird carcasses

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A cleit on St Kilda, used for drying and storing food, 1898 photo

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