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Blade of a reaping hook

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From Dores, Inverness-shire

Blade of a reaping hook
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A reaping hook is similar to a sickle. This bronze blade for a reaping hook was found at Dores in Inverness-shire. It was used sometime between 950 and 750 BC to harvest crops.

Copper alloy sickle from Dores, Inverness-shire

Sickles and reaping hooks were used from an early time to cut crops at harvest time. They were also used to gather plant fibres for textile production, with the exception of flax which was harvested by hand.

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