Traditional barley stooks, Deerness
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Traditional barley stooks, Deerness
Image: © Mark Crook Taken: 5 Sep 2006
There's an active Vintage Club in Orkney and here, old tractors equipped with even older binding machines have been making traditional stooks of barley at the disused farm of Holland.
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Image Location
Latitude
58.925446
Longitude
-2.774605