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An auger is a boring tool used in a variety of woodworking trades to bore long deep holes. It consists of an iron shank with a T-shaped handle at one end and a boring device at the other. The shell auger has a half-cylinder blade with an in-bent horizontal cutter on the nose, and was used by wheelwrights to enlarge holes previously bored in wagon hubs. This auger was made by T. Turner & Co. around 1860, and was bought from R. Middleton & Sons' wheelwrights workshop in Eddington, Hungerford.

1 shell auger: metal shank and blade; wooden handle; large

1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31

Mid-nineteenth century

Wood, Metal