51/776/1-3

Nothing is known of this coopered oak butter churn. It is a plunger type churn, also known as an upright or dash churn. It consists of a barrel, a plunger attached to a disc with eight holes in it, and an elm lid which fits over the top of the barrel with a hole in for the plunger. The pieces can all be taken out easily so that it can be well scrubbed.

1 butter churn: wood; metal; fair conditionChurn is made from a variety of woods; oak, sycamore and elm

MERL 'Conservation record' form - '[...] This churn was on lean to Oxfordshire Museums for a long period from October 1976 until January 1995. [...] ', MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'Nothing is known of the origin of this butter churn. It is an upright or dash churn, that is a tall conical-shaped vessel with a perforated plunger on a long handle which is worked up and down through the cream. // The churn is coopered in figured oak. It is narrower at the top than at the bottom and has two iron hoops and two wooden ones. It seems likely that the wooden hoops, one of oak and one of sycamore, were the original ones. The barrel is 15 inches in height, 35 inches in circumference round the bottom and 25 inches round the top. The plunger or dasher consists of a staff 21 inches long, but which has been broken and was obviously much longer, attached to a wooden disk with 8 holes cut out of it. // The fourth part of the churn is a lid made of elm which fits over the top of the barrel and has a hole in the centre through which the plunger passes. The pieces can all be taken out easily, so that the churn can be well scrubbed. // See also 51/1245.', No Lavinia Smith No. recorded.

Wood, Metal

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)