- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Laurel Hill Plantation, American, founded 1694
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Date
- before 1863
- Medium
- iron and wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 48 13/16 × 14 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (124 × 37 × 8 cm)
- Description
- A cutter mattock with a long wooden handle from the Laurel Hill Plantation, South Carolina. The grubbing tool has a head with a combination iron axe blade and an adze, separated by a central eye. The wooden handle is threaded through the eye and has smaller pieces of wood wedged around the shaft. Painted in a small white rectangle at the base of the axe head is hand painted black text that reads [R440]. The shaft handle is split at the top, constructed from a branch, and is roughly squared. There is a small fragment of a paper tag that reads [[---?]T TOX / [---?]GRUB OUT / [---?]OTS / [---?]ile] and a white string that is knotted at each end.
- Place used
- Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Tools and Equipment
- Type
- ironwork
- adzes
- axes (tools)
- Topic
- Agriculture
- Labor
- Skilled labor
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.108.23.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




