Small made his first experimentally shaped mouldboards from wood covered in thin metal before eventually making them in iron. This plough, vernacularly made, is very much in the Small's tradition ...

This horse drill plough was made in Ruthwell ... This blackened piece of wood, evidence of crannog dwellings and an iron age ring fort are testament to the fact that working the land, crucial ...

Small made his first experimentally shaped mouldboards from wood covered in thin metal before eventually making them in iron. This plough, vernacularly made, is very much in the Small's tradition ...