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Ox shoes. Two flat oblong pieces of iron with wings at the front to fit an ox hoof. One shoe has a hoof placed inside it.
Two ox shoes, with a broad wing or flange over each side of the toe and an additional flange at the heel.
Axe head. A heavy, black iron axe head with a square loop at the back to insert a handle.
Axe head in iron.
Heckle Heckle Comb
Heckle, for dressing flax, with a wooden handle, heart-shaped iron tang and long, slightly curved iron teeth, set at a right angle to the handle (one tooth missing).
Naphtha lamp. A small metal lamp with a conical base. The body of the lamp is cylindrical and has a handle made of plate with a hole punched in it, a lid with a handle, a spout pointing diagonally upwards and a tray underneath the spout.
Conical base, with cylindrical top, loop for suspension.
Pike head. A large flat iron point with two curved points projecting from the bottom, on a wide iron socket.
Erroneously desribed as 'halberd' in Reid (1912).
Man trap. An iron trap with sharp teeth on hinged brackets which are snapped shut by a leaf spring. The leaf spring has part of a chain at one end.
Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap. Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers. The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap…
Cruik. A piece of iron about a foot long, with a wide flat hook on one end a small pointed hook on the other from which it hangs on a chain of large flat iron rings.
Links shape: round, flat.
Inscription: XXX
Inscription: XXX
Gag. Two L shaped iron bars hinged onto a third bar which has a screw in it.
Mouth gag in iron.
Stob Spade
Stob-spade in wood, two pronged flat spade. Used for inserting straw in thatching.
Inscription: D
Inscription: D
Thatch Dart Thack Dairt
type: five pronged, flat spade.