Object number
66/344
Description
A wooden mallet, that was used for knocking in vent pegs at top of beer casks in a farmhouse larder.
This is a wooden mallet, that was used for knocking in vent pegs at top of beer casks in a farmhouse larder.
Physical description
1 mallet: wood
Archival history
MERL ‘Handwritten catalogue’ - ‘MALLET // Domestic- Preparing- Drink // Miss M. E. Crowson, Runcton, Chichester, Sussex // [pencil drawing] All wood with the handle fixed with the socker on the head with a nail. Mallet used to knock in the vent peg at the top of a 4½ gallon cast of beer kept in the Farmhouse larder.’
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