51/19

This is a household grain scoop, used for getting measures of grain out of a sack. It is carved from a single piece of lime wood, and has a slightly curved handle to sit in the palm of the hand.

1 grain scoop: wood [lime]; good condition: has a few worm holes

Citation in publication [H. J. Massingham, 'Country Relics' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)]– My beautiful grain-scoop from Ditchling, Sussex, cut out of a single piece of lime wood with a slightly curved handle, pours out before my inward eye that mountain of grain at Burton Bradstock.' (p.75), MERL 'Catalogue index' card – ‘SCOOP ['(Grain)' Scored through] // DATE ACQUIRED: January, 1951 // GROUP: DOMESTIC- PREPARING FOOD // NEGATIVE: 35/87 // PERIOD: Not known // PLACE OF ORIGIN: The H. J. Massingham Collection // NUMBER: 51/19 // DESCRIPTION: This grain scoop, for household use, came from Ditchling in Sussex; nothing is known about its age. // It is carved in one piece from lime wood and has a slightly curved handle for holding in the palm of the hand. The scoop is 5" in diameter and the handle is 4 3/8" long., MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/19 // NAME: GRAIN SCOOP // NEG NO.: 35/87 // STORAGE: '