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Lead Mining Tools: Hand Buckers

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P0892 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Lead Mining Tools: Hand Buckers

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P0892

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

Site Location(s): Subject - Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4434, -2.04279 )

Date(s): July 1967

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/tkw9v9l5

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/411831

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Hand buckers, found at the CB Lead Mines, Fell End Moor ( Arkengarthdale) by a local keeper in 1966. Buckers were often used by women and children at the dressing floor in conjunction with a large slab of iron or flat stone for crushing the lead ore prior to smelting. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. notes and catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling. Informant: Lawrence Barker of Healaugh ( Swaledale).


Originally held in Photo File: Mining.

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