ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN A TURBARY. 2 
A Yang Cmf-bearer’s Km in the 
Curbarieg. 
BY MR. W. STRADLING. 
ANY years are now passed, since a young friend of 
mine, by the name of Murch, entered his father’s 
turbary,* with the determination of giving his assistance to 
the laborers, as turf-bearer,—a most arduous undertaking for 
one so young, and which I will endeavour to describe, as the 
process of preparing the peat, for fuel, is curious. A pit, 
ten feet square, is commenced by the delver, with the turf 
scythe, with which he removes the top spine, as useless ; he 
then proceeds to cut his brocks, which he does with the 
greatest accuracy : places them round the mouth of the 
pit, when the bearer, with the turf fork, lifts them into a 
barrow, and wheels them to the drying-place, where, with 
a scythe, he splits each brock into three. They then 
remain on the ground, until sufficiently dry to be placed 
into ruckles, or, the smallest kind of drying heaps. Those, 
* Near Edington Burtle. 
