Object number
64/135
Description
A steel level in a wooden box with a hinged lid, used for trueing marking staffs. A marking staff was used to mark the rough or projecting portions of a millstone. The level is part of a collection of milling equipment (64/123–64/144) from Drayton Mill in Drayton, Oxfordshire.
Archival history
MERL Handwritten form – ‘LEVEL // Crafts–Stone–Millstones // 64/135 // [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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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_11601.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_11602.tif - High resolution image
