Object number
81/10
Description
A pair of large pliers made of ash used in badger hunting.
Physical description
1 pair of hunting pliers: wooden (ash); large
Label Text
Badger pliers. A tool likely used by poachers to capture a badger after luring it from its lair. It may have been used in conjunction with the Badger Shovel and Badger Fork. These objects together show the means available to hunters without ready access to metalwork. Hunters could alternatively capture badgers using dogs to force them into sacks. Causing a dog to enter a badger set is now prohibited by law.
Archival history
The pliers are from the estate of late Mrs. Eileen Shorland, via Miss V. J. Cook at the Central Library of the South East Berkshire Division, a local historian of Warfield, Berkshire, and descendant of Sir William Herschel.
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14185.tif - High resolution image
