Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Description
Compilation of fieldwork recordings [extracts], made in Avebury and possibly copies of original recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects. Male informant talks about harvest time and the use of horses; reaping by hand; sheaves; mechanisation; use of the frail to thresh corn; agricultural wages; farmworkers' privileges; allotments. [Tr. 2] Male informant talks about stacking sheaves into a rick, and describes the process of thatching the top. [Tr. 3] James Shipway talks about rick thatching; the loss of craftspeople in the village; tractors; horses; cattle; ploughing with bullocks; the name for ploughs and constituent parts; names for oxen feet. [Tr. 4] James Shipway talks about ploughing with oxen; describes the collars used to attach the oxen to a plough or cart; talks about farm wages. [Tr. 5]
Metadata
| Identifier | zdzr1s1n |
| IRN | 414644 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A593 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zdzr1s1n |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Kylstra, Henk E, Orton, Harold |
| Date | [1960] |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 15' 06". |