Record ID: NLM-7FAC62
Object type: BOAT HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: 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 bo…
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.