Measure
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
chestnut, iron
Measurements
190 mm (Height); 400 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 478505
Summary
Wooden bushel measure in the form of a straight-sided barrel, rivetted and bound with iron scraps, iron loop handles on either side; excise mark GR 1826 carved above one handle. Owner's mark TW carved front and back. Painted black. Once used as a grain measure on a farm in Yorkshire; more recently used as a log basket.
Marks and inscriptions
TW (owner's mark carved front and back)