Fishing net frame
Category
Metalwork
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Iron
Measurements
60 cm (h)
Order this imageCollection
Bodiam Castle, East Sussex
NT 67559
Summary
Iron circular frame, probably for attaching a fishing-net (CL). Cone-shaped socket with central hole for securing to wooden haft; frame sub-circular 1.3 cm in diameter with flattened on forward edged (4.6 cm max width) and eight perforations on inner side; two 5.6 cm diameter rings passing through either side of flattened edge
Provenance
Found by George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, in 1919-1920 during his excavations at Bodiam Castle (Curzon, Bodiam Castle, 1926, p99)