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Flailer's measure
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Cylindrical-shaped lip-work basket used to measure corn, about 1870. The corn was given to threshers as payment on a farm at Aberaeron, west Wales.
This basket was made to measure corn. It would be used by farmers when distributing corn to flailers or cornbeaters as payment for their work on the farm. This example comes from Llanrhystud near Aberystwyth.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
27.202.3
Historical Associations
Association Type: Use
Place: Llanrhystud
Creation/Production
Acquisition
Donation
Measurements
diameter
(mm): 250
Height
(mm): 160
Depth
(mm): 250
Techniques
Lip work
Material
Straw
Bark
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Lipwork
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