Bethany’s Bucket Handle
Bethany Powell chose this bucket handle, pictured above, as her object. From the museums MODES record she was unable to find out where the object was discovered, but through the object history file she was able to work out that it was found in Brough. It is described as being two pieces of metal with a hook on the end of one piece. This was almost certainly a bucket handle. Buckets would have been made of wooden staves bound together with holes for the handle at its highest point. Although the Romans were renowned for their aqueducts and fountains in larger towns & cities, in smaller towns water would have been collected from wells or streams and rivers. Bethany chose this object because she thought it was an interesting every day object, which tells us something about how ordinary people would have fetched and carried water or milk.
