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An awner is a tool for cutting the awns, or ears, of wheat and barley from the plant. This grid type barley awner, known as a ‘hummeler’, came from Bangrove Farm in Gloucestershire. The handle is branded with the name ‘Reeve’.

1 barley awner: metal (iron); wood; good condition

Citation in publication [H. J. Massingham, 'Country Relics' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)] –'He had promised me a barley-hummeler which he had used for ridding the barley of its ail on the threshing-floor...' (p.4), MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/141 // NAME: BARLEY AWNER // NEG NO.: 5/11, 35/131 // STORAGE: P.Ex. (Permanent Exhibition) Threshing.'

Wood, Metal, iron