Tossing The Caber Highland Games Newburgh Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland video of tossing the caber at the Highland Games at Robbie&Park, Scotland Terrace, Newburgh, on ancestry visit to Fife. The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a " caber ".It is usually 19 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. The caber derives from the Gaelic word " cabar " or " kaber " which refers to a wooden beam. It is said to have developed from the need for highlanders from Scottish Clans to toss logs across narrow streams or chasms in order to cross them