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One of 20 sculptures commissioned for the Shipwrights Way trail, with the subjects identified through public consultation and engagement. Petersfield became prosperous through producing and processing wool in the early seventeenth century and its wool industry supported 1,000 people in the area, who lived by weaving. The sculpture is a bale of wool sitting atop a plinth. It has been vandalised and is now missing a small protrusion that used to represent a pulled-out sample of wool.

Title

Wool Bale

Date

2014

Medium

Portland stone

Accession number

GU3_PD_S002

Acquisition method

commissioned for the Shipwrights Way

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

East Hampshire District Council

Custodian

East Hampshire District Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

information board: Petersfield on market day would have been busy / noisy and probably smally - full of sheep, cattle and / horses, wool bales like this one and the framers, merchants, weavers and tanners from the / surrounding villages who'd come to trade. Wool / mechants lived in the grand houses near here at / The Spain, and sheep were penned there before / being taken up Sheep Street into the market.

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