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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1800 wheat was normally reaped with broad hooks or saw sickles while barley and oats were mown with a scythe. Where …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… also in operation. There are manufactories for scythes, sickles, and edge-tools, and for various articles in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The equipment necessary for farming, such as axes, sickles, quernstones, storage pits, and pottery containers, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… palstaves, one socketed celt, a spearhead, razor, two sickles, a torque, armlet, five dress-fasteners or … finds a flat bronze celt from Staple Fitzpaine, and two sickles and a chisel from Sparkford may be quoted. 24 10. THE … in their wood-work ; they reaped their barley with iron sickles of various shapes. They had iron chains : the scori …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… their banks. A very extensive manufacture of scythes and sickles is carried on, and large quantities of those articles …