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ID	Category	Simple Name	Detailed Description	Thumbnail	Location
A80	CRAFTS	thatcher's bat	For combed reed or straw thatch.Beats material into bundles in position. Spike handle on back is for use in difficult places eg between windows and valleys.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A543	CRAFTS	thatcher's hammer	for knocking in pegs used to hold down thatching on corn stack wooden cylindrical bat with roughly carved handle and flattened underside. Has no ridges like usual thatcher's leggat.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A545	CRAFTS	shears	like livestock shears but in this case used for cutting and strimming straws of thatched corn stack. sprung piece of metal curved so that points cut and semi-circle is the handle.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A546	CRAFTS	knee pads	for tying over the thatcher's trousers to protect knees from sharp straws leather double layered pads with leather straps to hold them on		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A547	CRAFTS	ladder	used on roof to be thatched 5 runged ladder		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A548	AGRICULTURE	knife stand	for cutting cakes of hay from stack short wooden handle. knife blade is a large triangle of metal set at right angles to handle.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A606	MEASURES	measure, peck	round wooden tub with metal bands marked with portcullis, crown VR SM		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A607	MEASURES	measure, bushel	round wooden tub with metal bands marked with shield, crown VR SM, also called a pottle or one gallon		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A608	MEASURES	measure, peck	round wooden tub with metal bands marked with crown VR 356 Bushel		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A609	MEASURES	strike	for levelling measures. Wooden bar with bottom edge very straight and top edge curved ornamentally.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A635	CRAFTS	wimble and leather	for making straw rope well made wimble . leather attached round spike.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A638	CRAFTS	rake	to straighten and hold thatch in place. short straight wooden bar with nine iron nails driven through it at right angles		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A642	CRAFTS	thatching needle	patent device for binding thatch with string iron shaft with square iron bare set in a hollow carrier. shaft ends in a semicircular open bar with a point on the end.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A650	CRAFTS	rope and string lengths	rope and string used to tie thatch in place. string is tied in bundle by rope and all attached by hurdlers withe		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A654	AGRICULTURE	rick paring knife	for cutting off bumps in rick so it would not get wet. short wooden handle with long narrow slightly curved iron blade, possible made from a scythe blade.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
A655	HARVESTING	rick paring knife	for cutting off bumps in rick so it would not get wet. short wooden handle with long narrow slightly curved iron blade, possible made from a scythe blade.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
B472	MEASURES	measure, half bushel	iron bound measure GR 1938 clearly inscribed Half bushel. with good metal handles.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
C771	WOODWORKING	log roller	log roller		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
C784	CRAFTS	wedge	thatcher's wedge		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
C785	AGRICULTURE	mincer	Vegetable Mincer and Shredder Proctor's Patent Machine No. 6487 by J.J. Blow Ltd.		Q Bay 2 Cow Shed
C804	CRAFTS	hay fork	hay fork		Q (BAY 2 Thatching)

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