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Blade of a reaping hook

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From Dores, Inverness-shire

Postcard of Blade of a reaping hook.
000-100-034-437-C
© National Museums Scotland

Blade of a reaping hook

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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Online ID: 000-100-034-437-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DO 29
Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
Material: Copper alloy; single fluting on blade
Dimensions: 5.25" L; socket 2.38" L
What: Sickle
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Where: Scotland, Inverness-shire, Dores
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References:
  • Coles, J.M. Scottish Late Bronze Age Metalwork: Typology, Distributions and Chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 93 (1959-60), pp 47, 88. 
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