Flail. With two cylindrical pieces of wood of different length: a straight staff and a shorter swingle. The top of the staff is encased in a wooden socket with an attachment loop, while the top of the swingle is bound to a perforated leather strip with thong. A leather loop joins the two together. [AB [OPS Move] 27/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flail. With two cylindrical pieces of wood of different length: a straight staff and a shorter swingle. The top of the staff is encased in a wooden socket with an attachment loop, while the top of the swingle is bound to a perforated leather strip with thong. A leather loop joins the two together. [AB [OPS Move] 27/1/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Minster Lovell
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Bateman; PRM source J. Bateman
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1897
Date collected: By 1897
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1897
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Perforated, Process Turned
Dimensions: Depth: max 60 mm, Width: max 105 mm, Length: max 988 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.69.1.2
Research and responses: OED online: Flail: 1. a. An instrument for threshing corn by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swingle or swipple, is so hung as to swing freely. [AP 29/09/2006]

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