Object number
80/23
Exhibition
Description
This sack needle was used to sew up sacks for delivering malt. It was found on the storage and bagging floor of the old Lee & Grinling malthouse (malthouse no. 14) at Great Gonerby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Physical description
1 sack needle: metal (steel)
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Standard museum name: Sack needle // Accession number: 80/23 // Classification: Processing, Grain malt// Negative number: 60/14757 // Acquisition method: Gift // Acquired from, date: Pauls & Sandars Limited, Grantham // Store: // Condition: Good // Recorder, date: J. H. B. 28 Mar 1980 // Description: Long steel needle. Curving to a point. Round cross-section for most of its length, flattening out towards the point. Eye at the head, (length of hessian attached). // Dimensions: 14 1/2cm long // Associated information: A sacking needle. This was found on the storage and bagging floor of an old malthouse at Great Gonerby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. (The malthouse was Lee & Grinling No. 14) // References:'
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14757.tif - High resolution image
