Survey of English Dialects recording in Portesham, Dorset
Description
[Side 1] Sid talks about typical wages for mowing by hand in past, explains different approaches to harvesting wheat, barley and oats and describes different types of 'rick' [= stack of corn]. [Side 2] Sid explains how to thatch rick, discusses importance of threshing at right time, recalls once seeing man thresh with 'frail' [= flail] in past, stresses importance of sheep for improving land for corn, lists root crops grown locally and practice of growing 'catch-crops' [= crop grown between two main crops when ground would otherwise lie fallow] such as 'thetch' [= vetch] and 'trifolium' [= type of clover] for pasturing sheep.
Metadata
| Identifier | cklfgbck |
| IRN | 726670 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D291 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cklfgbck |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | Dec 1956 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 05 min. 12 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 06 sec. |