Object number
62/238
Description
A sack carrier, a double ended carrying tool with handles for two people to carry a sack. From a Farm Sale in Denton, Lincolnshire.
This is a sack carrier, a double ended carrying tool with handles for two people to hold, carrying the sack on the small platform inbetween. This sack carrier was acquired by the donor at a Farm Sale in Denton, Lincolnshire.
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'SACK CARRIER // Transport - Land - goods - manual'., MERL Recording form – 'Where was it used // It was in a lot of oddments purchased on a Farm Sale at Denton in the Vale of Belvoir, North Leicestershire. // Has it any unusual characteristics // No, but similarly made carriers were used at pig-killing in the days of my Father's youth some 80 years ago in Staffordshire.'
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4620.tif - High resolution image
