A Bield

[QDanT]

On the way back from the Cheese Press Stone
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51107 (2nd. photo is a map)
I'd gone through this gate

to have a look at what looked like the gable end of a ruin on the top

the high point on the horizon is Tow scar

It just didn't look like it had ever had four walls though

Doing some research today, it's marked Bield on the map which translates to :-

Bield - Scot and northern English dialect
noun
a shelter
verb
to shelter or take shelter
[Old English bieldo,boldness (hence: refuge)

So just like the wall at the gate piled up the snow on the downwind, or low pressure side,this was built at the top of the hill to catch the wind
as a shelter for the sheep.So thats a new word learnt for me.
just thought I'd share. cheers all Danny

 

[Toddy]

The word is still in use. The Scots proverb is, "Better a wee bush than nay beild".........better a bush for shelter than nothing. The local senior citizens retirement home organisation is called The Bield.

Intersting to see one constructed there

cheers,
M

 

[fred gordon]

The word is still in use. The Scots proverb is, "Better a wee bush than nay beild".........better a bush for shelter than nothing. The local senior citizens retirement home organisation is called The Bield.

Intersting to see one constructed there

cheers,
M

It certainly is still in use. There is a part of the City of Aberdeen called Bieldside

 

[FerlasDave]

I think I remember discussing this with a teacher at school, I think we stole the word from the scottish and turned it into building

 

[Cael Nu Mara]

We have a bield at home on the very top of the moor, the first place i ever camped! my granpa could remember his grandad putting it up! It was to shelter yan when were gannin up gathering.


Sam