N° d'objet
55/192
Description
This drainage scoop, now missing its wooden handle, was the last tool to be used in the process of digging a drainage trench designed to be filled with wood, stone or straw, rather than pipes. It has a narrow concave blade and was used to pick up the loose 'crumbs' in the bottom of the trench. It belonged to John Anstee's great-grandfather,Thomas Hayden, a farm labourer of Great Canfield and High Roding, Essex, who died in 1890.
Description physique
1 drainage scoop: metal
Historique d'archive
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – [55/191] – 'Surface drains are of two kinds – open and covered. Whatever the depth of the open variety they must be made with sloping sides in order to prevent the crumbling down or undermining of the sides. Covered drains on the other hand are trenches made to the depth of two or three feet, and then filled with stones or straw and other waste material within a foot of the surface. On the other hand draining tiles may be placed in the trench in order to carry away the water. While the open trench tapers almost to a point at the bottom, those intended for tiles must be more or less rounded at the bottom.'
Date
1850 - 1860
Nom d'objet
Matériel
