Spade History

Illustrated here is Abel Grimmer’s 1607, Der Herbst. There are images of Spades, Rakes and Grafting Knife.
The compressed sub image shows the Irish priest, Fiacre from the 600’s. He settled in France at what is now Saint-Fiacre-en-Brie. He was granted all the land he could dig in a day by the Bishop of Meaux.