Head of a rutting/ritting spade
Head of a rutting or ritting spade designed for cutting turves for roofing or for digging ditches. Shovel-shaped with long flat spike out to one side. Found in the garden of Lonsdale Cottage, Heanish.
Drill used for boatbuilding at Vaul
Wood and metal hand-operated drill from the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders.
Iron head of an adze – a sort of axe used for thinning wood during boat-building. From the workshop of Vaul boat-builders.
Poster about traditional dairying equipment
Poster in Gaelic with sketches of various implements used in a traditional dairy and descriptions of their use. Subtitled in English.
Hay fork head
Metal two-pronged head of a hay fork from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Painted black in 2013.
Brass ‘primus’ blow lamp from Donald Brown`s house at Vaul.
Crois-iarna for winding yarn into hanks.
30″ wooden crois-iarna / niddy-noddy for winding 5ft-skeins, or hanks, of wool from a spinning wheel. Also known as ceanaldar or eachan.
Thatching hook found on top of a wall at Silversands, Vaul.
Iron Age strike-a-light.
Palm-sized round brown pebble with deep straight grooves on both sides. An Iron Age multifunctional tool: the grooves were used as a ‘strike-a-light’, the edges for hammering, and the flat surfaces for rubbing hide. Found near the top of Dun Mor, Vaul, on 27th July 2005 by holiday-maker Kenny Nelson. It may also have been used by sail-makers for sharpening their needles.
Shovel used for removing turf.
Shovel used for removing turf, found at the old Fever Hospital in Heanish. (Given to donor by Rosemary Noon)
