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!