Object number
52/72
Description
Deaccessioned. Please note that this object no longer forms part of the Museum of English Rural Life collection and cannot be accessed at our institution.
This is a model of a Ley plough.
Physical description
horse hobbles, deaccessioned
Archival history
I understand they were put on to the fetlocks of horses when turned out to restrict their movement. They were ploughed out of a Marsh field, Burnham Avery O.S. 197 in 1942 which did not appear ever to have been ploughed before since it was enclosed from the sea about 360 years ago. I imagine they could possibly have been used by the people building the sea banks to prevent their horses straying too far on the open saltings which were being enclosed.
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