Object number
64/136/1-3
Description
Three marking staffs, for marking the rough or projecting portions of a millstone with red dye. From Drayton Mill in Drayton, Oxfordshire.
Three wooden marking staffs, for marking the rough or projecting portions of a millstone with red dye. They are part of a collection of milling equipment (64/123–64/144) from Drayton Mill in Drayton, Oxfordshire.
Archival history
MERL Handwritten form – ‘MARKING STAFF // Crafts–Stone–Millstones // 64/136/1–3 // [pencil sketch] ‘LEVEL used for trueing marking staffs which were used with red dye (raddle) to mark the rough or projecting portions of the stone’
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