bothy; travelling
Maker
Heggie & Robertson
Description
Travelling bothy consisting of a wooden hut on a chassis with cast iron wheels. The door is leaved and there are two windows. The wood was re-covered with felt by the Museum in the early 1980s and the exposed wood painted green. Cast in relief on the body on a brass plate "Heggie and Robertson Priorybank Dunfermline".
Such bothies were often used in conjunction with threshing mills, to house farm workers during the course of the harvest season. A bothy like this and a threshing mill would be trailed behind a steam traction engine. This one was inhabited as recently as 1974. A bothy can be any one roomed structure in which labourers are housed.
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Object detail
Dimensions:0 - Whole:W 2m (W 6' 6 3/4")
Dimensions:0 - Whole:H 3m 12cm (H 10' 2 13/16")
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