Held at:	Private collection
Reference:	LD_rs_0001
Source:	Original document
Title:	Photograph of a winnowing machine at Pontys Mill
Place name:	Longtown
Date:	1997

Description:

Photograph of a winnowing machine made by SA & H Kell of Gloucester and Ross on the stone floor at Pontys Mill. They were normally farm equipment rather than milling machinery and the fan, bottom right on the photo, was usually hand-cranked. It may have been used to clean the grain before grinding but would probably not have been worked indoors because dust and chaff is blown out of the front as the threshed grain passes through the riddles and makes a terrible mess without a wind to carry it away.

 

Observations:

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