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| Keywords: St Kilda Cleit.jpg en Cleit for storing fuel or hay on St Kilda With nature and a camera Richard Kearton 1898 The author died in 1928 hence more than 70 years ago PD-old 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 St Kilda Scotland Dry stone huts in Scotland Mountain huts in Scotland Buildings in St Kilda Scotland | ||||
