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This is a coulter, a plough part which hangs from the beam and cuts the ground before the share. Dredged from a gravel pit at Ashford, Kent.
This is a coulter, a plough part which hangs from the beam and cuts the ground before the share. This is a knife coulter, made of iron. It was dredged from a gravel pit at Ashford, Kent.

1 coutler: metal

MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'COULTER // Dredged from gravel pit at Ashford, Middlesex. // [pencil sketch] // Iron', MERL Recording form – 'Additional information // Dredged from Hall's Gravel Pit, Clockhouse Lane, Ashford, Middlesex. September 1961. Pleistocene bones have also been obtained from this put. Collected by workmen and given to present owner. To be retained by museum if interested.'

Coulter, Plough part