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Description: | Delling spade: made for left handed person. The small blade is mounted on a long handle with no hand-hold at the end, as the spade was levered over the thigh of the digger. The foot peg allows the spade to be driven into the ground
"O. 40. SHETLAND SPADE - the old style of implement employed by the small cultivators in Shetland. This specimen was procured in Scalloway. Prof. Christie, DD, 1886."
Author: Michie,Charles Date: 1887 Purpose: Catalogue.of.Antiquities.in.the.Archaeological.Mus
"In Shetland and Orkney, as larger farms were broken up into smaller holdengs at the end of the 18th century, ploughs became scarcer and cultivation was carried out by digging, or 'delling' with a spade. By 1814 nine-tenths of Shetland was cultivated by spade. It was done by teams of three or four, working in unison shoulder to shoulder in line. The amount of land under cultivation and yields increased. This is a delling spade from Scalloway, Shetland, dating from the earlier 19th century. The small blade is mounted on a long handle with no hand hold at the end, as the spade was levered over the thigh of the digger. There is a foot peg to allow the spade to be driven into the ground. The blade ends have been rounded off by wear, digging and turning over the turf in one movement tended to cause this."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Christie, Reverand Professor J | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1800-1870 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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