The Terminology of the Artificial Field Boundary: Being a Study of Words Relating to Dry Stone Walling and Hedging, Based Upon a Survey Made in Certain Parts of South Westmorland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Terminology of the Artificial Field Boundary: Being a Study of Words Relating to Dry Stone Walling and Hedging, Based Upon a Survey Made in Certain Parts of South Westmorland
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/214
Site Location(s): Subject - Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5768, -2.91157 ); Subject - Kendal, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.3268, -2.74757 )
Date(s): 1954
Size and medium: 92 unbound ms. leaves, [72]; 24 b/w photographs. 2 volumes. 1 file.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410250
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the occupational language associated with the crafts of hedging and dry stone walling, in the the south of the old county of Westmorland. The Introduction outlines the aims of the study, the research methodology employed, and presents geographical, historical and linguistic background information for the area under investigation. The first of four chapters describes the construction of a dry stone wall and its various features, including hog-holes and water-smoots, stiles and gates, and the laying of a hedge. Chapter Two provides information on the collector's four principal informants, resident in or around Kendal. The third chapter gives a description of the sounds (with sections on vowels and consonants), and the final chapter presents a vocabulary of dry stone walling and hedging. Indexes of words and notions are included in appendices.
Volume Two contains a programme for a hedging and walling competition, held in Killington in 1953; line drawings of hedging and walling tools, features of the dry stone wall, stiles, gates, and the hedge. This volume also contains photographs, taken by the collector, of walls and hedges in the process of being built and laid, examples of wall features and completed walls and hedges.
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