Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (1.1968/1971)

PROPOSAL FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF
PRE-INDUSTRIAL TILLING IMPLEMENTS

Frantisek Sach

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Berner’s comments I have made more precise my
definition of the working part of a tilling imple-
ment and as a result I have established a new
type - the sole type with a sheer pointed oar-
shaped share (Dabergotz type) which also an-
swers to Steensberg’s classification. In accordance
with Prof. Bratanic’s note, I have included the
construction of the politza-sokha in the type with
a beam ard head. In order to simplify my system
I have transposed the earlier type with stilt ard
head to the stilt type. According to my original
intention I have decided to cancel the main group
of implements with the quadrangular construc-
tion and to transform it into a new type which
accords also with Steensberg’s classification.
On the advice of Prof. Steensberg I have given
up my derivation of the forms of recent ards
from some early graphic sources, the Cretan pic-
tographs, because of their problematical form. In
my original notation of the individual construc-
tional types I endeavoured to indicate their com-
mon feature. Now, in accordance with Prof.
Steensberg, I am adding to the original name of
the type a secondary one according to the best
known specimen or according to its main geo-
graphical extension. In my survey of the forms of
the individual parts of implements I have added
some additional ones.
I thank all the three scholars named above for
their stimulating comments. I am also much ob-
liged to Alexander Fenton, Assistant Keeper of