- also found in the form scalp, this term is used to describe a bank of shellfish, especially mussels or oysters, sometimes appearing in local, minor names. An article in the Montrose Chronicle from 1821 noted that 'the Muscle Scalps and White Fish Bait, on the Sands of Dun' were to be rented, and in 1965 the Scots Magazine commented on their gradual disappearance:
Scalps in the Forth died out about 1920, and those in the Orkneys, Outer Hebrides, many West Coast lochs, and Luce Bay, also disappeared, possibly because of hard indiscriminate fishing without care for breeding oysters.