Sheep Salving
- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Sheep Salving
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Description:
Mr. M. Horner of Buckden salving sheep in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A wooden salving bowl, with flat handle, has been lodged in a dry stone wall. Mr. Horner sits on a salving stool with the sheep.
Before the introduction of chemical sheep dip, sheep were salved with a mixture of tar and grease, the wool being parted and the salve rubbed into the roots.
Originally held in green slide cabinet, reference B46.
- Date range: July 1965
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: University Subjects > Linguistics and Phonetics
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/PHO/S541
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/34252
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