Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Announcement]; Mr. R. M. Claughton, recorded in Askrigg; collector introduces Mr. Claughton, who goes on to describe the building of a dry stone wall - selection of stones, courses and terminology; talks of sheep marks, including also horn branding; registration of marks in a shepherd's book; sheep counting the old way; gathering and bringing in sheep; the bell-wether [leading sheep of a flock, on whose neck a bell is hung]; decline in shepherding and number of shepherds; survival of sheep in snow; training sheep to stay on the moors; ?hoofing sheep; names of sheep at different ages; describes the shearing of sheep.
Metadata
| Identifier | tgvbybdn |
| IRN | 414908 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A857r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tgvbybdn |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Orton, Harold |
| Date | [November 1966] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 17' 12". |