Weighting bar with a parallelepiped profile, belonging to an anchor stock.
It belongs to a class of wooden anchors with a weighting made of lead. In this type, the lead was cast in two wooden cases that were part of an anchor made of the same material.
Comparisons can be made with similar bars found in Monasterace, Lipari (1) and Filicudi (2).
No phenomena of biological degradation are recognisable.
ALBORE LIVADIE 1986; CAVALIER 1986.
NOTES
1ALBORE LIVADIE 1986, p. 35, figs. 11 and 12b (Lipari, inv. 12606, length cm 77).
2CAVALIER 1986, p. 85, fig. 82d (Filicudi, inv. 12636 a,b. Length 70 cm, weight 70 and 80 kg.
REFERENCES
Albore Livadie C., Discariche e Relitti in Mari Eoliani: Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea, Basiluzzo, Salina, Filicudi, in collaborazione con Cavalier M. e Bernabò Brea L., in Bollettino d’Arte, Archeologia Subacquea 2, Roma, 1986, pp. 27-100.
Cavalier M. 1986, Discariche e Relitti in Mari Eoliani: Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea, Basiluzzo, Salina, Filicudi, in collaborazione con Albore Livadie C. e Bernabò Brea L., in Bollettino d’Arte, Archeologia Subacquea 2, Roma, 1986, pp. 27-100.