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Spud + Nuts on Viking Nylon Rope

Accession Number

1689.2022.1

Object Name

Spud + Nuts on Viking Nylon Rope

Created

28/09/2022

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

28/09/2022

Brief Description

1 Spud and 3 nuts on Viking Nylon rope

Materials

Aluminium, iron

Dimensions

Spud - 1(L) x1(W) x1(H) cms Nuts 1.1.3,1.7(W) cms

Number Of Objects

4

Inscription Description

On Spud "TROLL"

Colour

silver, brown

Maker

Troll

Object Production Place

England

Provenance

The story goes that some climbers found nuts(as in nuts and bolts) lying beside the Snowdon railway line when they were off to climb in the 1950’s. Thinking they would be better than the pebbles and chockstones currently in use, they threaded the nuts onto a piece of rope and ‘hey presto! a new form of rock protection could be jammed into a crack to make an anchor much like a nut.
The newly formed climbing equipment manufacturers, Clog and Troll, were quick to get in on the act, creating aluminium versions of the Spud and the nut which they called Hexagonals. You will find lots of this stuff elsewhere in the collection.
What we have here is a fabulous example of the transition from old to new (circa1964/5) with some nuts and a Troll wedge or Spud threaded on a length of Viking nylon rope. The thread from the inside of the nut has been drilled out to avoid fraying the rope - fabulous!

Acquisition Date

28/09/2022

Condition Check Date

28/09/2022

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/09/2022

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