Harvesting Objects

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Painting showing people at work harvesting potatoes
One of five preparatory designs for The Country Year, showing potato harvesting (MERL 2019/7)

The Museum of English Rural Life holds a range of objects and artworks relating to harvesting crops. The items in the collection are for cutting and reaping, picking, pulling and lifting, raking and sweeping, drying, bailing and stacking, and carting. 

More information

The objects are catalogued on the online database. Search using the word ‘harvesting’[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Connected Objects

Scythe (Museum object number 96/88)
Author
Tim Jerrome
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Published Date
April 28, 2021

Scythe

Scythes were used to manually cut crops or grass at harvest time. They replaced sickles and bagging hooks.

Author
Tim Jerrome
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Published Date
April 28, 2021

Barley fork

Find out about this three-pronged barley fork made of ash, used for turning over mown barley, in the museum collection.

Splint basket (MERL 91/38)
Author
Tim Jerrome
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Published Date
February 19, 2021

Splint Basket

Splint basket in the collections of the Museum of English Rural Life, made by Jack Rowsell, one of few traditional splint basket makers.

A gentle harvester - a metal handle with spiral wire attached
Author
josefinabravo
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Published Date
November 25, 2019

Gentle Harvester

From the collections at the Museum of English Rural Life, this fruit harvester extended the user’s reach allowing them to pick fruit without bruising it.

A hand-written object label for a sheep bell from Devon

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