Wooden spade
Wooden tools would have been common items in medieval Exeter, but rarely survive being buried in the ground. This spade blade is an unusual survival, and was found in a medieval rubbish pit. The holes in the blade were for wooden pegs to attach it to a handle.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/W17
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- woodoak
- Common Name
- wooden spade
- Simple Name
- spade
- Period Classification
- Saxo Norman (1066-1200)
- Production Year Low
- 1040
- Production Year High
- 1125
