Hatchet
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, Wood
Measurements
165 mm (Length)110 mm (W)365 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1334633
Summary
Old type hatchet, blade roughly rectangular with top and bottom curved. Wooden handle, eaten by worm. Blade marked 'Gilpin' 'Cast Steel'. Stored in open box SNO.F.944.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Gilpin/Cast steel