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Horn Branding (Sheep)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P0786 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Horn Branding (Sheep)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P0786

Creator(s): Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

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/hl4wxcsb

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/411725

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Mr. M. Horner of Buckden preparing to brand sheep horns in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A metal bucket has been filled with small pieces of wood and set alight. Mr. Horner places the metal branding implement into a slot at the bottom of the bucket in order to heat it. The sheep owner's registered brand will be burnt into the sheep's horn, forming a permanent record of ownership. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0785. Card 2 in a series of 4.


Originally held in Photo File: Sheep - Other Processes.

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