Threshing-flail, with two cylindrical pieces of wood of different length: a straight staff and a shorter swingle. [AB [OPS Move] 27/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Threshing-flail, with two cylindrical pieces of wood of different length: a straight staff and a shorter swingle. [AB [OPS Move] 27/1/2017]
Long description: Threshing-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 bound with string. The top of the swingle has a hide loop bound to it. A knotted leather loop joins the two together. There are cylindrical metal bands around the top of both the staff and swingle. [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 Oxford Littlemore
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Percy Manning; PRM source Percy Manning
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1911
Date collected: By 1911
Acquisition information: Donated: 1911
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Knotted, Process Turned, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions: Depth: max 65 mm, Width: max 100 mm, Length: max 940 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1911.29.51
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]

Search terms: Agriculture and Horticulture, Tool, Flail, Threshing Tool, Agricultural Tool