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BOAT HOOK
Unique ID: NLM-7FAC62
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Iron stoures or boathook head. Y-shaped wrought iron object forming the working end of a pole-mounted implement. The prongs are now of squared section, though this may be an effect of corrosion. They spring from, or are split to form, a pair of concavo-convex plates of length c.120mm through which pass a pair of domed headed rivets of head diameter 22mm and length 50mm. Fragments of desiccated wood were observed between the plates, which would clasp the broad end of a very long haft. This would have had a smoothed wooden block at its other end; termed a shoulder pad, this enabled a boatman to use the bifurcated end to grasp and manipulate ropes and cables when a vessel was navigating in busy or confined waterways. This identification was kindly elicited from members of the Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society by Susan Bootland, who crews on the Humber Keel Amy Howson. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1950.
Length: 420mm, Width: 240mm, Thickness: 48mm
Class: Stoures
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 420 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 9th September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26225a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: South Carlton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8170
Four figure Latitude: 53.22088658
Four figure longitude: -0.78830059
1:25K map: SK8170
1:10K map: SK87SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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