REFERENCES
- I am indebted to Mr. Thomason, Velzie and his sister, Mrs. M. Hughson, Leagarth, for allowing me to examine the list.
- Low, G., Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, Kirkwall, 1879. 164–5
- Ibid.
- In Scotland, a distinction is made between turf and peat.
- O’Dell, A. C. The Historical Geography of the Shetland Islands. Lerwick, 1939, 31, 83.
- Inset on “A Chart of the Orkney Islands, in which are printed out the Lands of the Earldom belonging to the Right Honourable Sr. Laurence Dundass, Baronet”, by William Aberdeen, c. 1770, now preserved in the Kirkwall Public Library and kindly brought to my notice by the Librarian, Mr. Evan Macgillivray.
- For an illustration see Fenton, A. Ropes and Rope-making in Scotland in Gwerin III. 1961. 154.
- Laurenson, J. J., Da Sixern Days in The New Shetlander No. 63, 1962. 22.
- The term is also applied to a stone buttress built to steady a shaky well in a dwelling house or, usually, an outbuilding.