Object number
52/321/1
Description
Part of gear worn by draught animals to connect them when drawing vehicles. Possibly from a farm at Wilcote, Oxfordshire.
Forms part of gear worn by draught animals to connect them when drawing vehicles. Thought to have been used on a farm at Wilcote, Oxfordshire, probably with oxen, until about 1912.
Physical description
1 yoke with two bows: wood (oak, ash); metal
Archival history
MERL miscellaneous note - 'Used on farm of Mr Dawkins at Wilcote, Oxfordshire. Sir Hugh Rhys Rankin tells us that he visited Mr. George Dawkin's farm in the early 1900's. Mr. Dawkins, like Sir Hugh, was a member of the Dynevor family of Dynevor Castle, Carmarthenshire, South Wales and used to obtain Dynevor oxen from them. These oxen were rough white beasts with black points and long horns and are now becoming rare (1954). They were last used on the farm at Wilcote in about 1912 and the job the last one was put to was to draw a water cart.'
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_153.tif - High resolution image
