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Tag Archives: fishing nets
The naming of stones
Nellie and Pintle, High Netherma and Maston; Metalstones, Archie and Popple scaurs. “The names go back a terrible long time,” Ronnie Porter tells me. They’re part of the oral tradition of the shore, and neither Ronnie nor his wife know … Continue reading
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Tagged boulders, fishing nets, rocky scars, Romans, shipwreck
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Loom-stones or fishing-weights? (And the role of piddocks)
In my post on March 21st 2014 I wrote about an object I had found on the shore near Beckfoot, which one of my shore-walkers told me was a warp-weight or loom-stone; I subsequently saw similar objects used to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged boring molluscs, fishing nets, fishing-weights, loom-stone, piddocks, Romans
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