Name/TitleSingle-Handed Scythe

About this objectA single-handed scythe with a steel blade and ash snead. The blade seems to be attached to the sneed by an adjustable collar and bolts, with intermediate clips. The snead, partly bound with twine, has a rectangular section at the blade end for 1 foot 6 inches, then it is oval in section.

This scythe was used by the donor’s father-in-law (a former superintendent for Suffolk police), mostly likely for grass-cutting rather than for harvesting in the proper sense.

Medium and Materialssteel blade
ash handle

MeasurementsBlade: 1 foot 5 inches x 1 1/4 inches
Snead: 2 foot 6 inches (length)
1 1/4 inches x 1/2 inch (rectangular section)
1 1/8 inches x 1 3/8 inches (oval section)

Object numberSTMEA:A.3636

Copyright LicenceAttribution - Non-commercial (cc)