1 gen 1692 anni - turf-spade

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A spade designed to cut turf, described in 1887 as having a triangular blade of steel with one side turned up and sharpened in front and a long curved shaft with a strong cross-handle (NRQS5/252). This description is unlikely to apply to the early examples noted: 1485 <i>iiijor vange et j turfe spade</i>, Ripon (SS64/373); 1559 <i>j jturfspade iiijd ij old leys viijd</i>, Westerdale (YRS74/57); 1587 <i>a turfe spade ... a dungeforke</i>, South Cave (Kaner145); 1692 <i>3 olde turfe spades 6d,</i> Holmfirth (IH).

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