Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. supporting equipment

Anotations

Scope note:

In the hand working of hides and skins, convex slabs, typically wooden, sloping upwards from the floor, over which hides and skins are placed while they undergo such processes as trimming, fleshing, depilation, liming, and scudding, known as beamhouse operations.