Basket spit
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Iron
Measurements
326 mm (Width); 1640 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333484
Summary
Iron basket spit of three curved, rectangular iron hoops complete with pulley, which one of the spit's supporting arms screws into. Hook shaped screw clamps allow spit to come apart, two at either end of central hoops.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.