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Box-beds were also used to protect people of the home from the domestic animals (pigs, hens) living in the house. [5] In Breton culture, the box-bed was also believed to offer protection against wolves. [6] Similar types of enclosed bed furniture was once also found in western Britain; Devon, Cornwall, Wales, and particularly in Gower. [7]
A wooden bed built into the wall panelling can be seen at Craigievar Castle, converted in the early 20th-century to hold a bathtub. [33] A wooden close bed or box-bed was an "essay" or apprentice piece for an Edinburgh wright in 1683, [34] and such beds remained a feature of a range of Scottish homes into the 19th-century. [35]
By the late eighteenth century, highland Scotland, Wales and most rural gardens in England's west country also spaded their potatoes into beds. [2] Lazy beds have been identified in archaeological contexts from 17th and 18th century farms in Clydesdale, [12] and have also been uncovered as part of archaeological excavations in Newfoundland. [13]
A box-bed is a bed having the form of a large box with wooden roof, sides, and ends, opening in front with two sliding panels or shutters; often used in cottages in Scotland: sometimes also applied to a bed arranged to fold up into a box. A brass bed has a frame constructed from brass. A brass-plated bed is a cheaper bed of iron with a thin ...
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Lairig Leacach Bothy, Lochaber, Scotland. A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Ulster and Wales.
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