Description (Labels & Markings)
Typed label affixed to object, partially missing, reads: 'Great Western Railway. Newton Abbot. ...INGTON...'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label with zigzag border adhered to lower shaft, largely illegible with section missing, handwritten: '...burn'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Agricultural or industrial cutting tool. Wooden tool with flat wooden blade tipped by iron crescent-shaped cutting blade. Long wooden haft.
Event Date 31/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
The label indicates that this object possibly either belonged to, or was used in the construction of, the Great Western Railway.
Event Date 31/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Possibly marked for disposal, see 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Analysis)
A Similar label found with E 1904.215, addressed to the museum's curator, from the Great Western Railway appears to be a train ticket - the lower portion of the label (missing for TEMP.00567) reading 'Carriage paid'. This suggests TEMP.00567 was sent to the museum from Newton Abbott station via the Great Western Railway.
Event Date 10/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Agricultural cutting tool, almost certainly a peat spade. Wooden tool with flat wooden blade tipped by iron crescent-shaped cutting blade. Long wooden haft.
Event Date 8/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6089 | Freezing
Event Date 8/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan