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Equipment model; Anchor model; Killick Long Caption: Scale: Unknown. A model of a killick from Romania 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. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK Object: ZBA4787 Artist: unknown Date: unknown Medium: wood; stone; twine Size: 55 mm x 60 mm x 50 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.