Nicely stacked peat (cruach in Gaelic) Northern Lewis, Scotland

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Peat is still widely used for heating in the Outer Hebrides. They cut it in slabs on the moor with a tairsgear where it is left to dry before brought back to the croft and stacked in cruachs rounded at the top and approx 2 meters high.

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Location: Northern Lewis, Scotland
Photo credit: © Lars Ørstavik / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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