51/81

Buckets such as this one were used for mash and barley meal for feeding pigs and poultry. They were made by coopers. This bucket came from Wessex and is made of oak with four iron hoops around it. It was carried by the kidney-shaped slots in the handles.

1 bucket: wood [oak] and metal [iron]; good condition

, MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/81 // NAME: BUCKET // NEG NO.: 35/128 // STORAGE: Loan - Exhibition?'

Wood, oak, Metal, iron