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Description: | NORWAY Notched stone and wooden crook (the "krabbe" or "krakje"
Scale: Unknown. A model of a half killick from Norway consisting of a wooden stock with a grown crook arm projecting at forty-five degrees to the shank. There is a large flat oval shaped stone which has been tied to the shank around the middle and rests on the fork of the crook with a notch in the stone to keep it in position. The stone has a grey mottled colour. This model is based upon the anchor recovered from the Gokstad shipwreck in 1882. In Norwegian it is known as the krabbe or the krakje.
Possibly made by Robert Morton Nance.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum killicks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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