Ancient skep beehive making is still used today

The word skip is thought to have come from an Icelandic Norse word skeppa which referred to a straw basket for measuring grain.

It was the Saxons who first investigated the potential of skeps for keeping bees in, and it was the Saxons who brought skeps to Britain when they surged westward to occupy lands vacated by the Romans after their empire collapsed in 410 AD.