It's a DOOR KNOCKER ... there are four countersunk holes for screws to hold it in place on the door ... I suspect it was fitted to a big old heavily studded oak door on a pub or some other large building, The grooved add to the acoustics ... You would need nuts the size of apples for it to be a nutcracker !
No need to get personal!
In my defence I didn’t know it was 10 inches long.
Something Curly is obviously proud of
There you go - Curly found himself £55's worth of door knocker!
See ... told you all ... That's a really good spot ... I couldn't find one in google - but our cottage, when we first married, was a school house and it had a very similar knocker on the door ~ which was why I knew it was a knocker - Nice little earner for Curly - stick it on ebay someone will buy it.
It's the sort of thing I have been getting out of the stream that borders my garden for at least the last 14 years 'cos lazy bxxxxtds can't be bothered to dispose of things properly. Just one lot on one day of scavenging other peoples rubbish that I took to the tip 6 miles away.
Unbelievable ... well, no, it's not ... Someone dumped a fridge on the grass verge at the side of the main road just the other side of my fence. The recycling centre is only a mile away and they must have had a vehicle to get it to where it was dumped ... why they could not have taken it there is beyond me ?It's the sort of thing I have been getting out of the stream that borders my garden for at least the last 14 years 'cos lazy bxxxxtds can't be bothered to dispose of things properly. Just one lot on one day of scavenging other peoples rubbish that I took to the tip 6 miles away.
around here people drive right past the 'civic amenity site' and carry on going for a few miles to dump their crap on the mountain.
Almost enough there to build a humpy.It's the sort of thing I have been getting out of the stream that borders my garden for at least the last 14 years 'cos lazy bxxxxtds can't be bothered to dispose of things properly. Just one lot on one day of scavenging other peoples rubbish that I took to the tip 6 miles away.
It's quite ornate. It looks like it may have been for stripping bark from branches? I'm thinking spindles or pegs.
Professor Alice Roberts.....archaeologist and tv history presenter
Oh.....missed that bit.
*Puts down secateurs and moves away from the spindle bush........*
Not a bad find from someone else's rubbish, Thanks for the link Philip.
My old history teacher collected them, or at least everyone agreed she had an impressive set of knockers.
