A collection of 61 spades and shovels of all kinds and conditions, exhibited at the National Museum of Wales in 1978.

These notes were printed in the exhibition catalogue:

Spades

Old. New. Broken. Repaired.

Drawing attention to the special character of each individual object.

Together forming and challenging an image of THE SPADE.

Representing work done or potential work.

When does a spade become a shovel?