Mole Trapping in South Wales

Thinly distributed amongst the museum collections of south Wales are the relics of a now vanished method of trapping moles which combined a countryman's observation of their habits with the craft of the potter and carpenter. The manner of catching moles in a variant of the pit-fall trap has been outlined by Bateman, who describes the type as the ‘Monmouthshire Trap’, but in fact it had a more widespread distribution across south Wales

Archaeology · Craft · Geography · Meteorology · Trap (plumbing · Trapping · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Forestry · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology