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Sketch showing view of Culswick broch.
DC 53083
Description Sketch showing view of Culswick broch.
Date 8/1801
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DC 53083
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies DP 418389
Scope and Content Drawing in sketchbook made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Page 19: view titled 'The Brough of Culswick - a Pictish fort, the most entire in the islands. In the distance the island of Valey. Aug 1801'. Looking north-west across a geo to the broch with its outworks, with Vaila in the distance,a sailing boat in the middle distance, and in the foreground a male figure (tamping gunpowder into his shotgun?) and a dog. Pencil and ink.
Medium pen &wash
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 164
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1215546
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