Wellmann Imre szerk.: A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1971-1972 (Budapest, 1973)

Fenton, Alexander: Early yoke types in Britain

horns, and may. therefore, have been intended to allow lateral adjustment of; the beam or pole of a plough or vehicle. Its length is 140 cm, A fairly close equivalent is the head-yoke from Baltigeer in County Meath, Ireland (Fig. 1, 3)

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. It has a large, rectangular central opening, and a rather shallow comb. At the inner side of each neckpiece is a broad vertical groove where the horn thongs have been attached. Although it is a double yoke, it is Fig. 2. Dutch and Danish yokes from 1. Ezinge; 2. Finderup; 3. Jordrup; 4. Sevel; 5. Dejbjerg; 6. Lundgârdshede. From photographs, not to scale. only 86 cm. long, and one can well imagine that the draught animals were not very big. Parallels to these three head yokes have been found in Denmark and irt the Netherlands. The Danish examples (Fig. 2, 2—-5)

6 each have a single, horizontal, central opening at the base of a raised crest, and the yoke from' Ezinge (Fig. 2, 1) in Holland

7 has two angular grooves cut in the crest. The* Finderup yoke also has two vertical openings, one bored through each of the outermost ends, and the Dejbjerg yoke has two small horizontal openings, one on each of the inner sides of the neckpieces. Thus, they do not parallel the British yokes exactly, though direct comparison is impossible when the precise working contexts are unknown. They are also bigger than the British yokes,. 5

The Irish yoke diagrams are reproduced as provisional drawings (by the writer).. More exact drawings are being made, through the courtesy of Dr. A. T. Lucas, Director, National Museum of Ireland, for later publication. 6— ?Drawn from photographs kindly lent by Professor S. Piggott.