M0001042: The clavie used in the Burning of the Clavie ceremony, Scotland

Line drawing published in an unknown publication showing a clavie, a cut down barrel filled with tar and wood which is nailed to a pole, set alight and carried around as part of an ancient Scottish custom observed in January.

11 August 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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