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Sheep Salving

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P0776 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sheep Salving

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P0776

Site Location(s): Subject - Cray, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.2084, -2.09061 )

Date(s): July 1965

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/x14bwh7k

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/411715

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Mr. M. Horner of Buckden salving sheep in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A wooden salving bowl, with flat handle, has been lodged in a dry stone wall. Mr. Horner sits on a salving stool with the sheep. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0777. Card 3 in a series of 3.


Before the introduction of chemical sheep dip, sheep were salved with a mixture of tar and grease, the wool being parted and the salve rubbed into the roots.


Originally held in Photo File: Sheep Dipping/Salving.

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