Post #3764980
2026-07-12 15:27 UTC
This to my is another poignant part of the walk. This area was cleared of the people who lived here in the savage Clearances of the 19th century, all in the name of "improvement." No-one has lived here in 150-200 years, but their cultivation beds are still clearly visible in the landscape.
Even the name the "betters" used for these cultivation beds, "lazy beds" shows the contempt with which they treated people who thrived here.
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@withaveeay@mastodon.scot 2026-07-12 15:31
Here is one house, quite a large one, of what must have been a thriving community. There was a mill in a burn nearby, and excellent soil for cultivation, apart from the grazing available for those wonderful black cattle. But notice the quality of the building even 200 years later. It wasn't poor people who lived here, and their economy must have been a good one. Yet greed robbed them of all this.