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

What can I see

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Scythe

A Year On the Farm

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Barley fork

A Year On the Farm

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Splint Basket

Welcome Case

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Gentle Harvester

A Year On the Farm

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