Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A593
Creator(s): Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4167, -1.86667 )
Date(s): [1960]
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 15' 06".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414644
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of fieldwork recordings [extracts], made in Avebury and possibly copies of original recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects.
Male informant talks about harvest time and the use of horses; reaping by hand; sheaves; mechanisation; use of the frail to thresh corn; agricultural wages; farmworkers' privileges; allotments. [Tr. 2]
Male informant talks about stacking sheaves into a rick, and describes the process of thatching the top. [Tr. 3]
James Shipway talks about rick thatching; the loss of craftspeople in the village; tractors; horses; cattle; ploughing with bullocks; the name for ploughs and constituent parts; names for oxen feet. [Tr. 4]
James Shipway talks about ploughing with oxen; describes the collars used to attach the oxen to a plough or cart; talks about farm wages. [Tr. 5]
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