Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-10 Barn Enclosure

VII-9,10 VII-10 Barn enclosure Barn enclosures were situated on the outskirts of villages, because the large buildings would not fit into the yards. After harvesting the grain was trampled in the barn enclosures, at first by cattle, but from the beginning of the 19th century mostly by horses. The circular area for this purpose was called the threshing floor and it was swept and plastered to make it suitably hard. The driver stood in the middle and drove the horses round on the sheaves and their treading separated the grain from the straw. Barn enclosures remained in use up to the 1860s.