Description (Physical description)
Agricultural tool. Cutting tool with paddle-shaped wooden head tipped with iron edge and a iron cutting edge at a right angle. Wooden shaft with T-shaped handle.
Event Date 23/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
A note was found with TEMP.00544-00550, newly bagged and tied to TEMP.00551, with the word 'Wales'. It is possible that these items have been identified as coming from Wales, it is also possible that this note has ended up with these objects but does not relate to them. A second note was found with TEMP.00544-00568, newly bagged and tied to TEMP.00547, with '?Fens Unprovenanced' and so the geographic areas covering 'The Fens' has also been added to the place and production fields.
Event Date 10/1/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6135 | Freezing
Event Date 20/1/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Analysis)
From Enid Porter (1969), 'Fenland Peat', in Studies in Folk Life: Essays in honour of Iorwerth C Peate. 'The wooden becket, shaped rather like a long-shafted thin cricket bat, 5 1/2 in wide, had its T-handle set over to the right and an iron plate at the tip of the blade with a flange on one side projecting 4 1/2 in at right angles; this enabled both sides of the turf block to be cut to the required depth. Setting out from his starting cut the worker began his pit, three turves wide and just over a foot deep, easily dislodging each turf since the face and one side of it were already freed, and deftly lifting it on the becket's face and placing it on the side of the pit.'
Event Date 29/4/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Physical description)
Becket, or peat cutting tool with paddle-shaped wooden head tipped with iron edge and a iron cutting edge at a right angle. Wooden shaft with T-shaped handle.
Event Date 30/4/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck