Asleid 1

Asleid 1

Location

Upper mains of Asleid
New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire

OS Map Reference

NJ836444

Description

A cut sheet metal painted farm sign showing a ploughman with a horse and plough.

Related Information

This type of sheet metal sign used to be common in the Buchan area but many have already disappeared to be replaced by mass produced signage of various sorts. The North East of Scotland was a last refuge of farm Horsemanry in the British isles.

Era

2000s

Related Artefacts

Categories

Iconography

  • horse
  • human figure
  • plough

Creator

  • the late Gordon Christie, farmer, Artist

Photographer

  • David Watson Hood

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