This iron tool would have had a wooden handle and was used to strip and cut bark from oak trees. The bark was sold in bundles to the local leather tanners; the wood was used to make charcoal. It was possibly made in Hatherleigh in Devon. The current owner, 'Dartmoor' Dave Denford,was given the tol by his father who had inherited it from his father, who did general work around the farms in the locality.
Bark stripping iron
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