Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A857r
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Askrigg, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3148, -2.08082 )
Date(s): [November 1966]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 17' 12".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414908
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Announcement]; Mr. R. M. Claughton, recorded in Askrigg; collector introduces Mr. Claughton, who goes on to describe the building of a dry stone wall - selection of stones, courses and terminology; talks of sheep marks, including also horn branding; registration of marks in a shepherd's book; sheep counting the old way; gathering and bringing in sheep; the bell-wether [leading sheep of a flock, on whose neck a bell is hung]; decline in shepherding and number of shepherds; survival of sheep in snow; training sheep to stay on the moors; ?hoofing sheep; names of sheep at different ages; describes the shearing of sheep.
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