Equipment model; Anchor model; Killick

Scale: Unknown. A model of a killick from Roumania consisting of a large spherical stone which is secured in a wooden frame consisting of four wooden grown boughs. There is a rope securing the four wooden uprights together at the base of the stone which sits in the crutch of the boughs. The branches, which form a grapnel, are at roughly ninety degree angles to the stone and have small projections underneath the stone which finish flush at the neck.

Object Details

ID: ZBA4787
Type: Equipment model; Anchor model; Killick
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Places: Devon; Southampton
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 55 mm x 60 mm x 50 mm