Collection: Ryedale Folk Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Archaeology Collection

  The Hayes collection forms the core supplemented by the Rowland Collection on loan and a number of casual finds and donations. Hayes Collection is finds from Mesolithic sites over North Yorks Moors, Iron Age- Costa Beck site, Roman and Medieval sites throughout Ryedale including Thornton Risebrough, Rosedale glass furnace and Baysdale and Rosedale iron workings. Rowland Collection includes flint arrowheads from moorland sites; Iron Age urns, pottery and antler from Nanny Howe and Stony Rigg; Romano- British material including urns, pottery from Kildale and other sites; Ryedale windypits bone ,pottery and bronze. Loaned items include the 10th century Anglo-Saxon stone cross fragments from Kirkbymoorside Parochial Church Council.

  Subjects

  Archaeology

  Agriculture Collection

  Significant collection of hand and horse powered tools and machinery from the immediate dales ranging in date from 1860 to 1950 and extensive collections on arable farming, cattle and the working horse; allied activities are represented by peat and turf cutting tools and veterinary equipment. Agricultural machinery from local manufacturers Russels and Bamletts.

  Subjects

  Agriculture

  Costume and Textile Collection

  Comprises mainly women’s ‘best’ clothes, with emphasis on birth, marriage and death; some late 19th century working skirts and nursing uniforms. Small amount of military costume. Earliest costume of 1840, ranges to 1950.

  Subjects

  Costume and Textile

  Transport Collection

  Comprehensive collection of farm transport especially horse drawn vehicles from 1860 -1930 period also an 1860s Merryweather fire engine, 1830s Farndale horse-drawn hearse, 1920s Yorkshire Bow top open caravan, dog cart and various hand carts.

  Subjects

  Transport

  Science and Industry Collection

  Extensive collections of tools and machinery of 1860 -1930 from local crafts and trades; blacksmiths, tinsmiths, coopers, saddlers, cobbling, clog making, besom making and wheelwrights. Glass furnace of 1562-1600 date excavated in Rosedale produced distinctive green forest glass by French and Flemish craftsmen; small numbers of local 19th century brewery and cordial bottles. Iron production and working collection -19th century foundry equipment from Rosedale.

  Subjects

  Science and Industry

  Social History Collection

  This collection covering domestic, personal and community is large and has examples from hunting, folklore, witchcraft, semi-religious orders, laundry, food preparation, lighting, toilet ware, personal hygiene and textiles.

  6 buildings erected on site are important regionally viz:- Harome Manor House -16th century cruck built under thatch with random rubble walls has 17th century flooring, panelling and staircase at one end- is one of the largest examples of cruck construction in Northern England. Stang End, another thatched cruck building, late 16th or early 17th century built as a long house with living accommodation at one end and animals at the other with across passage, many original features; smoke hood, salt and spice boxes, wich post, and panelling.External walls pierced for extra windows in 17th and 18th centuries and front door remodelled in 1704. Harome Cottege is a 19th century remodelling of an early cruck house under thatch with random rubble walls; inside local Victorian cast iron parlour and kitchen ranges with box beds on 1st storey. These 3 buildings and the Crifters Cottage, a reproduction building using old crucks chronicle the use and development of crucks in the area. William and Raymond Hayes( the photographers) daylight photographic studio, first built in York in 1902, re-erected in Hutton -le-Hole in 1911 and moved to the museumin 1989 – oldest extant daylight studio in the country. Sectional builingon a wooden frame with ptg matchboarding clad externally with corrugated iron. Wheel House, typical N Yorks. 18th century hexagonal extension to a barn, with overhead gearing fro a horse driven threshing machine, built on dressed sandstone pillars under a pantile roof.

  Subjects

  Social History; Building (domestic)

  Photographic Collection

  In addition to the studio and contents of William and Raymond Hayes there is the Raymond Hayes collection of 10,000 prints and negatives donated by the RCHME.

  Subjects

  Photographic equipment

  Archives Collection

  Has several cross discipline collections including the Crosland papers, archaeological records from the Hayes collection, joiner and agricultural machinery manufacturers and the Parker manuscript.

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC