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Tool Code Number	Tool name	How it’s used	Dimensions (in)	Dimensions (cm)	Image
WT001/S005	Side Axe (head only)
WT002/W034	Twybill	Drill 2 holes and use blade for cutting between them to make a slot. Other end is used to hook waste material from slot	Handle length: 6, Blade length: 11	Handle length: 15, Blade length: 28
WT003/G024	Bolster chisel	Hit with a hammer to split stone/brick to specific sizes with a square edge	Total length: 7, Head length: 1 1/4, Head width: 2
WT004/F018	Billhook (No.9 – Newtown pattern?)		Blade length: 9
WT006/W022	Drawknife		Handle length: 4 1/4, Blade length: 14
WT007/F035	Bill hook	Like an axe for chopping branches	Handle length: 5, Blade length: 6 1/2	Handle length: 12, Blade length: 17
WT008	Slater’s hammer (?)	Unsure	Head length: 13, Handle length: 11 1/4
WT009/F007	Splitting wedge	For splitting timber along its length. Sometimes used to keep saw cut open when felling trees by hand.	Length: 8 3/8, Width: 2 , Depth: 1 1/4
WT010/F008	Wood splitting wedge (cleaving wedge)	Riving or splitting timber	Total length: 7 3/8, Width: 2 1/2
WT011/G017	Slater’s hammer	Used for splitting and dressing roofing stone. The slatter would shape the stone to the correct size as he worked.	Head length: 10
WT012/S039	Anvil	The anvil is set upright in a block of wood, and used when punching rivet holes in hoops and when hammering over the rivets when joining the hoops. The holes in the top are used for punching rivet holes in hoops.	Total length: 27 5/8, Head length: 7, Spike length: 5, Face: 1 7/8 x 2 3/160
WT013/S002	Hole Punch	Hold over leather and hit hard with a hammer	Total length: 4 1/2, Handle width: 3/8, Cutting hole diameter: 3/4
WT015/F038	Hand axe (Kent)	General	Handle length: 13, Blade length: 5 5/8, Blade width: 3 1/2	Handle length: 34, Blade length: 15, Blade width: 9
WT016/W025	Spokeshave		Total length: 10, Blade length: 3	Total length: 25, Blade length: 7
WT017/F017	Billhook?	Pointing spars, cutting and laying edges etc. Question as to whether this is a broken hurdling tool (pointed tip of blade broken?)	Total length: 14 3/4, Blade length: 9 1/2
WT018/S004	Pick (needs handle)
WT019	Colliers pick		Total length: 17
WT021/S032	Rounding and trimming adze	The knife edge part is used to cut the chime (see Salaman p.156) which is the bevel edge at the top of the staves. The other end is probably used as a hammer to knock down the hoops	Head length: 10
WT022/F040	Axe (Kent)	General use	Handle length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 7 1/2, Blade width: 4 1/2	Handle length: 36, Blade length: 19, Blade width: 11
WT023/A017	Vegetable scythe	Small scythe to cut turnips etc. where they come out of the earth	Handle length: 5 1/2, Blade length: 9 1/4, Blade width: 1 1/4
WT024/G020	Rounder plane	Used for rounding things such as rake and fork handles, trenails and dowels, putting a round taper on ladder rungs and working spoke tongues. The stick to be rounded is held in a vice or brake, and one end of the stick is placed in the mouth of the rounder, which cuts circumferentially across the grain when turned hand-over-hand.	Total length: 13 1/4, Height: 4, Max. capacity: 2″ round
WT025/W027	Spokeshave		Total length: 18, Blade length: 2 5/8	Total length: 46
WT026/F031	Bill hook (Newtown style)	General rural work	Total length: 14 3/4, Handle length: 5 3/4	Total length: 37.5, Handle length: 14.5
WT027/F005	Bark peeling iron	Peeling bark off oak. Coppice worker	Handle length: 6, Blade length: 2 3/4	Handle length: 15, Blade length: 7.2
WT028/F003	Bark peeler	Peeling bark from felled trees. Often used in conjunction with a shaving (peeling or rinding) brake	Total length: 12 3/8, Blade length: 9
WT029/W026	Adze		Total length: 32 3/4, Head length: 9, Head width: 3 5/8
WT030/S009	Side Axe (head only)
WT031/F043	Axe	Chopping	Total length: 17, Handle length: 15, Total width: 6 1/4	Total length: 45, Handle length: 38.5, Total width: 16
WT032/A032	Sickle	Cutting crops – wheat, oat, barley, rye etc.	Handle length: 5 3/8, Handle diameter: 1 1/2, Straight distance between base and tip of blade: 17
WT033/F042	Axe (head only)	General	Length: 9 , Width: 5 1/2	Length: 23, Width: 14
WT034/G029	Key spanner	A ‘lever’ for tightening something	Total length: 5 1/4	Total length: 13, Diameter: 2.5
WT036/S001	Pick
WT037/W010	Spiral auger	A boring tool	Total length: 14 3/8, Spiral length: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 1, Socket inside diameter: 1 1/80	Total length: 37.5, Sprial length: 16.5, Spiral width: 2.5, Socket inside diameter: 2.80
WT038	Twist auger		Total length: 12 1/4, Spiral length: 5 7/8, Spiral width: 3/4	Total length: 31, Spiral length: 15, Spiral width: 2
WT040/F004	Bark peeler	Billhook used to take off one long strip of bark and then the peeler is used (along with your thumbs) to peel off the bark	Total length: 8, Blade length: 5, Handle length: 3, Diameter: 10
WT041/G026	Chisel	Used for cutting timber/hitting with a hammer to cut timber	Total length: 11, Handle length: 5, Blade length: 5 1/2, Blade width: 3/40	Total length: 28.5, Handle length: 13, Blade length: 14, Blade width: 20
WT042/F021	Billhook (Kent pattern?)	Cutting and laying hedges, faggoting, splitting poles	Total length: 16 3/8, Handle length: 5 3/4
WT043/W028	Gouge		Total length: 19 1/8, Blade and socket length: 14 1/8, Blade width: 1 1/2
WT044	Twist auger	Used for boring long deep holes	Total length: 12 1/4, Spiral length: 5 7/8, Spiral width: 3/4	Total length: 31, Spiral length: 15, Spiral width: 2
WT045/G018	Soldering iron	Heat up in a fire and run the hot copper end with solder onto joint to make the solder run. Use with flame	Total length: 16, Handle length: 6 3/4, Ferrule length: 3, Ferrule diameter: 1, Shaft length: 4
WT050/S021	Compasses	To find the correct radius for the cask head. Done by stepping off round the croze groove until points meet after six steps.	Leg length: 12 3/16
WT051/S025	Blade (part of WT104)	A blade from an inside shave, a cooper’s tool used for shaping the inside of cask staves	Total length: 6 3/8, Thickness: 1/8
WT053/G028	Leather bodkin	Push through leather	Total length: 7 1/4, Blade length: 3 1/2
WT054	Bit (extending)		Total length: 9	Total length: 23
WT056/G023	Draw knife	Often used in conjunction with a shave horse to shape wood from rough to square or square to round.	Total length: 17 , Blade length: 9 5/8, Handle length: 5
WT057/G022	Deep mortice chisel	Used in woodworking to make mortices and similar joints. Mortice chisels have an extra strong blade in order to resist bending when levering out the waste in the mortice.	Head length: 17
WT058/S033	Flagging iron (English pattern, not Scottish)	Used by coopers in the process of flagging – in order to prevent leakage, dry rushes (flags) are inserted into the croze groove and between the separate parts of the head; and after repairs between the staves at their chime ends. The flagging iron is used mainly when making repairs.	Total length: 23 , Total width: 5
WT059/F045	Billhook		Total length: 14, Blade length: 9 1/2
WT060/S010	Small Axe (head only)
WT061/A018	Billhook (Yorkshire pattern)		Head length: 14
WT062/S035	Hammer adze		Head length: 9 1/2, Head width: 2 3/8, Handle length: 10
WT063/S019	Cooper’s hollowing knife	Pulled towards user to shave wood down	Total length: 14 1/2, Total width: 4 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/4
WT065	Hacking knife	Removing broken glass and putty from a frame prior to re-glazing. Back of blade hammered to remove broken glass.	Total length: 9 3/16, Blade length: 5
WT066/W029	Drawknife	As any drawknife, but it is a lovely tool for fine work	Total length: 8 1/4, Blade length: 5, Blade width: 1/2, Handle length: 2 1/4, Handle diameter: 3/4
WT067/S007	Hammer (short-handelled)
WT068/W035	Side axe	As per a side axe – used for splitting wood as if a wedge	Total length: 6 1/2	Total length: 16.5
WT069/W024	Drawknife	Coopering, staves, chamfering	, Total width: 2 3/8	Total length: 34, Total width: 6.3
WT072/A003	Bill hook	Backward pointing hook can be used for gathering next piece of wood. Handle may have been shortened, making the tool a slasher	Total length: 22, Handle length: 12, Blade and socket length: 17 1/2
WT074	Carpet knife	Cutting carpet	Handle length: 4 1/2, Handle thickness: 1/2, Blade length: 3	Handle length: 11.5
WT076/W005	Auger, bull-nose pattern	See WT119	Total length: 24 3/4, Length of spiral: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 1/2
WT077	Spiral auger	Boring tool	Total length: 31, Spiral length: 9 1/2, Spiral width: 2 1/4, Socket inside diameter: 1 5/80	Total length: 78.8, Spiral length: 24.2, Spiral width: 5.7, Socket inside diameter: 4.20
WT078/W018	Twist auger		Total length: 23 3/4, Spiral width: 1	Total length: 60.5, Spiral width: 2.5
WT079/S012	Cooper’s side axe	Right handed use, to shave the barrel staves (we think handle is reversed for left handed people)	Handle length: 14 3/4, Handle diameter (oval): 2 1/4 x 1 1/4, Blade length: 10 3/4, Blade width: 5 1/40
WT080/S006	Scotch pattern auger	For wider holds in wood that don’t wander. Much smaller than usual auger	Total length: 10, Spiral width:1, Socket inside diameter: 1
WT081/S029	Cooper’s downright shave	Finishing outside of cask	Total length: 11 3/4, Steel plate: 4 3/4 x 2 1/2	Total length: 30, Steel plate: 12 x 6.4
WT082/W013	Auger blade	Boring holes (needs handle – ‘eyed’)	Total length: 29 1/4, Spiral length: 9, Handle length: 3 1/2	Total length: 74, Spiral length: 22.5, Handle length: 9
WT083/W032	Brace	With bits for drilling	Total length: 10, Total height: 6 1/8	Total length: 25.5
WT084/W003	Auger	For drilling holes for dowelling, pegging	Total length: 24, Spiral width: 7/8	Total length: 62
WT085/S003	Barrel Auger and Bung
WT086/S040	Chive	Walter thinks it was used to plane the inside of the top of the barrel ready to accept the lid of the barrel	Total length: 16, Stock width: 4 1/4, Blade width: 2 1/4
WT087/S027	Heading swift	As a spoke shave on wooden barrels	Total length: 13, Width: 4 1/4, Height: 2
WT089/F041	Hand axe (Kent)		Handle length: 16, Blade length: 6, Blade width: 3 1/2	Handle length: 41, Blade length: 15, Blade width: 9
WT090/W008	Twist auger			Total length: 52.5, Spiral length: 14.5, Socket diameter: 2
WT091/S041	Chive	It is used to trim the stave tops to accept the head. It is essentially a plane with a radiussed plane knife	Total length: 14, Blade width: 1 3/4, Blade length: 7
WT092/S015	Barrel auger	Hand drill to drill a tapered hole for the bung	Total length: 11 1/2, Handle diameter: 1 1/2, Shank length: 2 3/4, Taper length: 7 1/40
WT094/S022	Cooper’s driver (English Pattern) / Hoop driver	Believed to be used to knock hazel barrel hoops on wooden barrels. Hit with a hammer and steel top ring holds wood together to prevent wood top from splitting.	Total length: 5, Handle length: 2 1/4, Head length: 2 3/4
WT095/A033	Handle sickle/scythe			Blade length: 30, Linking rod length: 17, Ferrule: 1, Handle length: 130
WT096/G014	Hammer	General whacking		Total length: 35, Handle length: 25.5, Head length: 9.5, Head width: 140
WT097/S028	Cooper’s buzz	Finishing outside of cask	Total length: 13, Total width: 3 3/8	Total length: 33, Total width: 8.5
WT098/S014	Curved side axe	Maybe for shaping staves	Handle length: 12, Blade length: 6 1/4	Handle length: 30, Blade length: 15
WT099/G015	Large reel (not a tool!)	Used in the cotton industry to wind cotton onto	Total length: 11 1/2, Reel end diameter: 5, Reel end thickness: 3/4, Centre diameter: 20
WT100/W019	Spiral auger	Drilling holes	Total length: 27, Handle length: 14	Total length: 69, Handle length: 36, Spiral length: 23
WT102/W002	Wood auger	By hand to drill holes for fence posts etc.	Total length: 28, Spiral length 8, Spiral width: 1, Screw tip length: 5/80
WT108/W017	Twist auger	Used with wooden handle inserted in eye for wide deep holes without wandering	Shank length: 17 3/4, Socket diameter: 1 1/8
WT104/S024	Inside shave (goes with WT051)	Used for shaping the inside of barrel staves.	Width: 8 1/4, Length: 4, Depth (max): 1 3/4, Mouth: 1 1/2 x 5/80
WT105/W001	Twist auger	For boring deep larger sized holes without wandering	Total length: 23 1/2, Spiral length: 8 1/2, Spiral width: 7/8
WT106/W004	Spiral Auger	For boring holes		Total length: 59.5, Spiral length: 18
WT107/S036	Topping plane (right hand)	To finish the chiming (bevelled top edge of stave) use a topping plane to square off the ends of the staves before levelling the inside surface with a chive.	Total length: 15 1/2, Block width: 2 3/4, Blade width: 2, Blade length: 6 3/40
WT108/W017	Scotch Auger	Used with wooden handle inserted in eye for wide deep holes without wandering	Total length: 24 7/8, Spiral length: 6 3/4, Spiral width: 1
WT109/W006	Twist auger, scotch pattern	See WT119	Total length: 24 3/8, Spiral length: 7, Spiral width: 3/4
WT110/S031	Buzz shave	Used to smooth the outside of a cask.
WT111/S013	Cooper’s adze	Ued for forcing dried rushes into the croze groove	Handle length: 4, Blade length: 7 1/2	Handle length: 10
WT112/W007	Twist auger	See WT119 Boring deep wide holes without wandering	Total length: 24, Spiral length: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 5/8, Handle length: 8 3/4, Handle width 7/8 to 3/4
WT113/W009	Twist auger – Scotch pattern	See WT119 Boring deep wide holes without wandering	Total length: 25 3/8, Spiral length: 9, Spiral width: 5/8
WT114/S038	Croze plane	Spun round top of cask to make groove (croze) for the cask head.	Total length: 18 1/2, Total width: 6 1/2
WT115/S030	Smoothing plane	Shaving over wood to smooth it	Total length: 22, Total width: 3, Total height: 3, Cutting blade length: 4 5/8, Cutting blade width: 2 1/4	Total length: 56, Total width: 8, Total height: 8, Cutting blade length: 12, Cutting blade width: 6
WT116/W016	Auger Gedge pattern (twist bit)	Boring deep accurate holes of larger diameter	Total length: 20 1/2, Spiral length: 8, Spiral width: 1 1/8
WT117/W023	Chisel	As a chisel!	Handle length: 2 5/8, Ferrule length: 5/8, Blade length: 2 1/2	Handle length: 6.7, Ferrule length: 1.1, Blade length: 6.4
WT118/S037	Croze plane (hawksbill teeth and guard)	Spun round top of cask to make groove (croze) for the cask head.	Total length: 18 1/2, Total width: 6 1/2
WT119/W020	Auger bit – Gedge pattern	Boring wide deep holes without wandering, especially in end grain or at an angle to wood as no spurs to foul before lead engaged	Total length: 20 1/2, Spiral length: 8, Spiral width: 1 1/4
WT120/W015	Auger, spiral	Used for boring long deep holes	Total length: 24
WT121/S026	Heading swift	For use as a spokeshave on barrels	Total length: 14 1/2, Total width: 5
WT122/F009	Hand axe	Conventionally used in forestry, but probably for small work	Handle length (below head): 11 1/2, Head length: 5, Blade length: 3
WT123/S034	Rounding adze – Scotch pattern	For jointing and fixing wooden hoops. For beating truss hoops over caks. Cutting the chime at the barrel rim.	Handle length: 10 5/8, Head length: 9, Cutting face width: 2 1/2
WT124/G021	Upholsters webbing tensioning pliers	Webbing was held in the pliers then levered over an edge	Total length: 8 1/4, Total width: 2 5/8
WT125	Plough gauge	Used for cutting leather strips for bridles etc.	Handle length 3 1/2
WT126/S017	Coopers jigger	Cutting chiv and chime	Handle length: 4 3/8, Blade length: 14, Diameter: 1 3/8
WT127/W033	Wooden mallet	Hammering	, Handle length: 5 1/2, Head length: 6	Total length: 29, Handle length: 14, Head length: 15
WT128/W014	Auger blade (possibly Scotch pattern with barrel eye, Salaman, p.32)	Boring holes (according to Walter it was used for boring chair holes	Total length: 28 1/8, Spiral length: 10, Socket diameter: 1 3/4	Total length: 71.5, Spiral length: 25.5, Socket diameter: 4
WT129/S023	Hoop driver	Either on steel or hazel hoops to knock them into position	Total length: 6	Total length: 15
WT130/S018	Hollowing drawknife	Shaping staves	Blade length: 6 1/2, Handle length: 5 1/8	Blade length: 16, Handle length: 13
WT131/A039	Hay fork – short handle	3 types: 1) short handle to turn hay after mowing in the field; 2) medium handle to lift hay onto the hay cart; 3) long handle to lift hay into high hay loft	Handle + socket length: 58, Head length: 8 1/2
WT132/S011	Rounding Box
WT133	Wooden spade	Used for wet clay – slides off easily	Handle length: 35, Blade length: 12, Metal length: 5, Metal width: 7 1/20	Handle length: 89, Blade length: 30, Metal length: 13, Metal width: 190
WT134/G027	Tent peg	To fix guy rope	Length: 12, Width: 2 5/8	Length: 30.5, Width: 6.7
WT136/A041	Pitchfork	Medium length fork	Total length: 82, Head length: 19, Head width: 8	Total length: 208, Head length: 48, Head width: 20
WT137	Spade	Digging post holes?	Total length: 38, Head length: 16, Head tip width: 3	Total length: 96, Head length: 40
WT140/A040	Pitchfork	Long fork for lifting hay onto top of stacks	Total length: 95, Head length: 14	Total length: 241, Head length: 35
WT141	Hay rake			Total length: 159, Head width: 73
WT142/A036	Slasher	Cutting/clearing brambles etc.	Handle length: 35, Blade + socket length: 13 1/2	Handle length: 89, Blade + socket length: 35
WT143	Spade	Digging post holes	Head length: 15 1/2, Socket length: 14	Head length: 39, Socket length: 37
WT147/S020	Compasses	Used for stepping off divisions/dividing; used to measure the heads of the cask to ensure a proper fit – the radius of the cask top was taken and measure six times round to obtain the size of the head	Leg length: 12
WT150/W012	Auger (Scotch pattern with barrel eye)	For boring deep clean-sided holes in wood	Total length: 9 7/8, Screw width: 1, Eye diameter: 15/16
WT151/F002	Felling axe	Long handle allows both hands to be used. Has heavier head than most axes. Obviously once used for felling trees, but now more often used for rounding and laying in (making a wedge to start a saw cut)	Total length: 36, Blade length: 8
WT154/G002	Machete	To cut undergrowth	Total length: 18, Handle length: 5 1/4, Blade length: 12 3/4, Blade width: 20
WT155	Hay rake		Handle length: 68, Head width: 30, Tine length: 4	Handle length: 173, Head width: 76, Tine length: 10
WT156/F001	Axe	Used for cutting a mortise through the bottom of a tree with large basal roots. When the mortise is cut, a saw is inserted and when to fell the basal roots are cut.	Handle length (inc eye): 34 1/2, Handle width (max): 4
WT159/A038	Hay knife		Blade length: 22 5/8, Blade width: 6 1/2, Total head length: 27 1/2, Handle length: 6 + 22 1/20
WT160/A010	Billhook		Total length: 15, Blade length: 8 1/2
WT161/A034	Sickle	Sweeping motion to cut grass	Blade length/cutting face: 16
WT163	Bill hook	Slashing to cut bottom of tree	Total length: 16, Handle length: 5 1/2, Ferrule length: 1 , Blade length: 10 1/20	Total length: 41, Handle length: 14, Ferrule length: 3, Blade length: 270
WT170/FLOOR	Stock knife and pin	Cutting timber.	Total length: 36
WT172/F022	Bill hook		Handle length: 5, Blade length: 10
WT174/A042	Slasher (English/heavy)	Used to clear hedge bottom of rough vegetation such as brambles before hedgelaying		Handle length: 86, Blade + socket length: 42
WT183/F010	Billhook (Shropshire Woodman’s pattern)		Blade length: 10
WT184/F024	Bill hook			Total length: 40, Handle + ferrule length: 14.5, Blade length: 25.5
WT190/F012	Billhook (Walter thinks it’s a Shropshire pattern)	Cutting and laying hedges, pointing stakes etc.	Total length: 15 5/16, Blade length: 10
WT195/A023	Billhook		Total length: 16, Blade length: 10
WT196	Cleaver	Splitting timber	Total length: 13 3/16, Blade: 7 5/8
WT198/F026	Billhook (Dorset, Epsom or West of England type)	For thin branches slashed with upward stroke (perferrably 1 or 2 strokes – 3 loses money). Typically used on hazel, and also birch. Start from inside woods out towards the ride, then work back in from ride trimming branches. As you trip, sort into piles by wood and diameter type (what it was going to be sold as, eg hazel for walking sticks, hazel for hedge stakes and net posts, birch for besom brooms)	Total length: 15 3/8, Blade length: 9 3/4	Total length: 39, Blade length: 25
WT199/F019	Billhook (Newtown pattern)	Cutting and laying hedges, pointing stakes etc.	Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 9
WT200/F014	Billhook (Newtown pattern?)	Pointing stakes, cutting and laying hedges etc.	Total length: 14 5/8, Blade length: 9
WT201/A043	Bill hook	cCutting and hooking	Handle length 12, Blade14	30, 36
WT202/A006	Bill hook		Handle length: 6, Blade length: 10	Handle length: 25, Blade length: 15
WT203/A026	Billhook		Total length: 16, Blade length: 10
WT204 – NOT FOR COLLECTION	Bill hook	Slashing bottom of trees	Handle length: 3, Ferrule length: 1, Blade length: 9, Blade width: 2 1/20	Handle length: 7.5, Ferrule length: 2.5, Blade length: 23, Blade width: 6.50
WT205/A015	Turnip topper	End driven into turnip to pick it up then turnip top cut off – top thrown one way, turnip thrown other	Total length: 13 1/2, Handle length: 5 1/4
WT206/A031	Vegetable scythe	Small scythe to cut turnips etc where they come out of the earth	Handle + ferrule length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 9 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/4
WT207/F015	Billhook		Blade length: 10, Blade width (max): 4 1/2, Handle length: 5
WT208/G001	Cleaver		Total length: 13 1/2, Blade length: 7
WT209/G011	Cleaver		Total length: 13, Blade length: 6 1/2
WT211/G009	Billhook/cleaver		Total length: 14, Blade length: 9
WT212/A004	Bill hook		Handle length: 6, Blade length: 10 1/4	, Blade length: 26
WT213/F006	Bark peeler	Peeling bark from felled trees. Often used in conjunction with a shaving (peeling or rinding) brake	Total length: 13 1/2, Blade length: 8
WT214/F034	Bill hook (Dorset, Epsom or West of England shape)	As a short handled axe	Handle length: 4 3/4, Blade length: 10	Handle length: 12, Blade length: 25
WT215 – NOT FOR COLLECTION	Side axe	To trim (for example) a chair leg. A side axe allows just a sliver to be shaved off	Handle length: 15, Blade length: 6 1/2, Blade width: 4 3/4
WT216/F036	Bill hook (Suffolk or West of England pattern)		Handle length: 6, Blade length: 7	Handle length: 15, Blade length: 18
WT218/G013	Cleaver		Total length: 12 1/2, Blade length: 6 1/2
WT219/F032	Bill hook	Looks to have been a tool used for trimming turnips but has had an extra piece fire-welded onto the back	, Blade length: 10	Handle length: 12, Blade length: 26
WT220/G004	Bill hook		Blade length: 8 1/2	Blade length: 22
WT221/A021	Billhook (Yorkshire pattern)		Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 8
WT224/F028	Bill hook		, Blade length: 10 1/2	Handle length: 12, Blade length: 27
WT225/A027	Billhook? Turnip knife?	If a turnip knfe, the spike is used to lift the turnip and the blade used to remove the tops	Total length: 15 1/2, Blade: 10
WT226/F029	Bill hook	Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc.	Handle + ferrule length: 5 1/2, Blade length: 10 1/2
WT227/A012	Light slasher	Thought to have had long handle originally used to slash hedges/undergrowth	Total length: 18 3/4, Blade length: 12
WT230/F023	Billhook (spar hook – similar to Kent pattern)	For cutting hurdles and thatching spars	Total length: 13 1/8, Blade length: 8
WT231/A029	Billhook		Total length: 16, Blade length: 10
WT232/F033	Bill hook (left-handed)	Cutting spars for thatch	Handle + ferrule length: 5 9/16, Handle width: 1 1/8, Blade length: 7, Blade width (max): 3 7/80	Handle + ferrule length: 14.2, Handle width: 2.9, Blade length: 17.9, Blade width (max): 980
WT233/A014	Slasher		Total length: 24, Blade + socket length: 15, Blade length: 8
WT236/F020	Billhook	The notch possibly used to push stems forward or catch them	Blade length: 10, Blade width (max): 5 1/2
WT237/G007	Cleaver		Total length: 14, Blade length: 8	Total length: 35.5, Blade length: 20
WT238/F030	Bill hook	Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc.	Handle length: 5 1/2, Blade length 9 1/2
WT240/F044	Bill hook (Isle of Wight pattern)	Harvesting and splitting wood	Handle + ferrule length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 12	Handle + ferrule length: 14.5, Blade length: 30.3
WT241/A024	Billhook		Total length: 14, Blade length: 9
WT242/A019	Bill hook	Turnip harvesting/splitting/cutting; Woodland crafts	Handle + ferrule length: 5 5/8, Blade length: 8 5/8, Blade width (max): 4 1/2	Handle + ferrule length: 14.3, Blade length: 21.6, Blade width (max): 11.4
WT243/A007	Bill hook	Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc.	Handle + ferrule length: 6 3/8, Blade length: 10
WT246/F013	Billhook (Newtown pattern)	For pointing stakes, cutting and laying hedges etc.	Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 9 3/4
WT248/G008	Cleaver		Total length: 14, Blade length: 8
WT249/G005	Cleaver	Splitting laths	Total length: 16, Blade length: 9 3/8, Blade width 2 7/16
WT250/F037	Bill hook	Used by Railway Co. to clear embankments	Total length: 12, Blade length: 7, Blade width (max): 2 1/4	Total length: 30.5
WT251/F025	Bill hook (Newton pattern)		, Blade length: 10	Handle + ferrule length: 15.5, Blade length: 26
WT253/A001	Bill hook (Yorkshire pattern)	For larger branches, poles etc.	Handle length: 14, Blade length: 8	Handle length: 36, Blade length: 19
WT254/F027	Bill hook			Total length: 39.5
WT255	Pick axe/colliers pick axe	Breaking up coal oar	Total length: 15	Total length: 38
WT257/S016	Drawknife	Drawing tool towards you to cut/shave off timber (but tried the tool out – it works better to use by pulling awy – the handle angle feels odd)	Handle length: 5, Blade length: 4 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/2, Ferrule length: 1/20	Handle length: 13, Blade length: 12, Blade width: 4, Ferrule length: 1.50
WT260/F016	Billhook (Newtown pattern?)	Pointing stakes, harvesting thinner material, cutting and laying hedges etc.	Total length: 14 5/8, Blade length: 8 7/8
WT262/A035	Spade		Total blade length: 25, Blade length: 15, Blade width (top): 6, Blade width (base): 3 1/20
WT263/G003	Butchers cleaver	Heavy blade and some force allows the blade to shear through flesh and bones.	Total length: 17 1/2, Handle length: 7, Blade width (max): 3 3/4	Total length: 44.5, Handle length: 18, Blade width (max): 9.5
WT264/W030	Adze (trackman’s spiking?)	Presumed to be for laying railway tracking. Also for trimming sleepers and driving wedges	Total length: 25, Blade length (inc. poll): 11 1/2, Cutting edge: 4 1/8
WT267/G012	Cleaver		Total length: 12 1/2, Blade length: 6 1/4, Blade width: 4 1/2
WT269/A028	Cleaver? Billhook?		Total length: 17, Blade length: 9
WT270/A013	Slasher	Used in the preliminary clearance work of laying a hedge for cutting away rough overgrowth, shrubs and trees not to be used in the hedge, and also in general hedge cutting and tidying.	Head length: 14, Blade length: 7
WT271/F011	Billhook (Walter thinks it’s a Newtown pattern)	Cutting and laying hedges, harvesting thinner materials	Total length: 13 7/8, Blade length: 9, Blade width (max): 2 5/8
WT272	Machete (slasher type knife)	To cut down small shrubs and branches. We think/guess that the Army would have bought these for general army use in the field as a slasher knife to clear stuff. Martindales are likely to be approved army supplier	Handle length: 5, Blade length: 13, Blade width (max): 1 7/8
WT273/A016	Turnip knife	Cutting root veg	Handle length: 5, Blade length: 8	Handle length: 13, Blade length: 20
WT276	Drawing knife	Cutting/shaving timber by drawing towards user	Total length: 19, Tang length: 5, Blade width: 1	Total length: 48, Tang length: 13, Blade width: 2.5
WT278/A002	Bill hook (Yorkshire pattern?)	General hedging and coppicing	Handle length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 13 1/4	Handle length: 14.6, Blade length: 33.6
WT279/G006	Cleaver	Splitting wood, chopping kindling	Total length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 7 1/2
WT283	Finishing scraper	To scrape cowhide – we think this is a finishing tool to finish off the kids. Two-handed scraping action. The left-hand end has a kink proving this tool was only for a right-handed person.	Blade length: 14, Blade width: 2 1/4
WT284	Billhook	Slashing bottom of trees	Total length: 15, Ferrule length: 1, Blade width: 2 1/2	Total length: 38, Ferrule length: 2.5, Blade width: 6
WT286/A005	Billhook	Cutting/laying hedges	Handle length: 6 1/2, Blade length: 9 1/2
WT287/A008	Billhook (Broom or Nottingham pattern)			Total length: 41, Handle + ferrule length: 15/5, Blade width (max): 14.5
WT288	Billhook	For cutting trees	, Blade length: 9	Handle + ferrule length: 16.5, Blade length: 23
WT289/A009	Billhook			Total length: 38, Handle length: 5.5, Handle width: 4, Blade length: 22.50
WT290/G016	Hammer (6lb)		Head length: 7
WT291/W031	Barking iron	Drawn down a log on a trestle to cut the tree bark lengthwise	Total length: 15 3/4, Handle length: 6 3/4, Socket length: 6, Head length: 3, Head width: 1 3/4
WT292/G010	Cleaver	Trimming staves. Removing small side shoots.	Total length: 13 5/16, Blade length: 7 3/4
WT293/A025	Billhook		Total length: 13, Blade length: 8 1/2
WT294/A020	Billhook		Total length: 14, Blade length: 9
WT295/F039	Small axe	General small axework	Total length: 12	Total length: 30
WT296/A011	Billhook			Total length: 36, Handle + ferrule length: 16, Blade length: 20, Blade width (max): 100
WT300/G025	Cold chisel	A cold chisel is a tool made of tempered steel used for cutting ‘cold’ metals (i.e. not used in conjunction with a forget etc.). Often used to remove waste metal when a very smooth finish is not required, or the work cannot be done easily with other tools	Length: 5 1/8, Wdith: 15/16
WT301/G019	Pry bar		Total length: 14 1/8, Height: 7
WT302/A022	Billhook		Total length: 15 3/8, Blade length: 10, Handle length: 4 3/4
WT303/A030	Riving knife/cleaver		Total length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 8, Blade width: 1 1/2
WT304/W021	Auger, spiral	Boring long deep holes	Total length: 31, Spiral width: 2 1/2
WT306/A037	Posting spade	Used for digging holes for fence posts	Total length: 42, Width (max): 6 5/8, Head length (exc. socket): 16 5/8
WT307/W011	Auger, spiral	Boring long deep holes	Total length: 23

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