The Terminology of the Artificial Field Boundary: Being a Study of Words Relating to Dry Stone Walling and Hedging, Based Upon a Survey Made in Certain Parts of South Westmorland

Description

A study of the occupational language associated with the crafts of hedging and dry stone walling, in the the south of the old county of Westmorland. The Introduction outlines the aims of the study, the research methodology employed, and presents geographical, historical and linguistic background information for the area under investigation. The first of four chapters describes the construction of a dry stone wall and its various features, including hog-holes and water-smoots, stiles and gates, and the laying of a hedge. Chapter Two provides information on the collector's four principal informants, resident in or around Kendal. The third chapter gives a description of the sounds (with sections on vowels and consonants), and the final chapter presents a vocabulary of dry stone walling and hedging. Indexes of words and notions are included in appendices. Volume Two contains a programme for a hedging and walling competition, held in Killington in 1953; line drawings of hedging and walling tools, features of the dry stone wall, stiles, gates, and the hedge. This volume also contains photographs, taken by the collector, of walls and hedges in the process of being built and laid, examples of wall features and completed walls and hedges.

Metadata

Identifier y9hpfc8d
IRN 410250
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/214
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/y9hpfc8d
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Williams, Gerald
Date 1954
Size and Medium 92 unbound ms. leaves, [72]; 24 b/w photographs. 2 volumes. 1 file.

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