Find Spot record MDO24647 - Wigmaker's block found in a seventeenth century cottage in Bradford Abbas.
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Summary
A wigmaker's block in the form of the carved wooden head of a man, found walled up in a niche together with a newspaper of 22nd June 1749, in an upstairs chimney-breast, during the reconstruction of a seventeenth century cottage.
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The carved wooden head of a man, found walled up in a niche together with a newspaper of 22nd June 1749, in an upstairs chimney-breast, during the reconstruction of a seventeenth century cottage, is identified as a wigmaker's block. Judging by the moustache and absence of beard, it would appear to belong to the first half of the last century. It has been given by Mr. A. Frank, of Cow and Gate Farms, Ltd., East Farm. (1)
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- <1> SDO54 Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1956. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954. 76. 76, 99.
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Location
| Grid reference | ST 5893 1470 (point) |
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| Map sheet | ST51SE |
| Civil Parish | Bradford Abbas; Dorset |
| Unitary Authority | Dorset |
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Record last edited
Oct 22 2010 10:11AM