Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer.
18th c. drawing of ledger stone from lost monument of Sir Walter Hungerford in the north nave of Salisbury Cathedral. Only the recesses remain to show the shapes of the looted monumental brasses, many having Hungerford sickles, his heraldic badge.
Le Sire de H(u)ng(er)forde, Waulter. Garter stall plate, Windsor Castle, of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford. The helm is covered by mantling barry of ermine and gules, the arms of Hussey. The crest is: Within a crest coronet azure a Peverell garb or between two Hungerford sickles argent.
Arms of Bishop Peter Courtenay (d.1492), showing the arms of the See of Exeter impaling Courtenay of Powderham, incorporating heraldic badges of dolphins of Courtenay of Powderham and in the spandrels, Hungerford sickles and Peverell garbs. Detail from the Courtenay Mantelpiece, Bishop's Palace, Exeter
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A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succul
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford
…the See of Exeter impaling Courtenay of Powderham, incorporating heraldic badges of dolphins of Courtenay of Powderham and in the spandrels, Hungerford sickles and Peverell garbs. Detail from the Courtenay Mantelpiece, Bishop's Palace, Exeter Elizabeth Hungerford (died 14 December 1476), who married Sir Philip…
Nepalese sickle from Panchkhal
One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450–1475)
A very early sickle, c. 7000 BC, flint and resin, Tahunian culture, Nahal Hemar cave, now in the Israel Museum.
Neolithic sickle