OneGuyFromBarlick

A bow and/or arrow?

plaques wrote: ↑31 Mar 2020, 08:38 Just scrolled down and seen PanBikers answer. Spooky.

Just that great minds think alike P

So has Plaques got it with his `throwing spear'?

Not really but I would have to have a heart of stone to refuse Gloria, Ian and P their result. Logic was dead right, Norman Stanley Fletcher. Fletcher is an arrow maker and that's what is happening in the image, using a tool made from deer antler to check and adjust the straightness of a blank that will become an arrow. (Good clue wasn't it. )

I went on the back of Panbiker and Fletcher.
Brilliant clue Stanley.

Tizer wrote: ↑30 Mar 2020, 09:05 Plaques can tell us more now that he's in lockdown with a book on the subject!

. So has not to lose too much continuity with Tizer's T-Gewehr mystery object This is an extract from the book. Sorry about the distortion I hope you can live with it.

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I shall have to get that book!
Can you tell me anything about this?

It's very ornate, not just a bog basic use.

True.......

Not sure of size, could it be a fancy pastry cutter?

A measuring wheel?

If it is, is it for measuring a cricket length if you don't have a chain?

Thanks for extracts from the WW1 book, Plaques. My photo came from `Armoured Warfare in the First World War 1916-1918' by Anthony Tucker-Jones, published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd. I bought it reduced to £4.99 in our local museum shop but I was lucky. A quick scan of booksellers on the Web shows it at about £12 upwards, e.g. Book Dep.

Wendy is closest but not for cricket pitches.

For measuring circumferences. I'm not sure if it gave the circumference as a direct measurement or the equivalent diameter, I guess it could have been marked up to do both.

That's close enough P. Commonly used by wheelwrights to measure the circumference of a wheel which equals the length of flat bar needed to make an iron tyre for the wheel.Known in the trade as a 'traveller'.
Next one?

Where can you see this? (hopefully I don't have to give any directions)

Nice bottoms!

A guess. Townley Hall?

I used this view so as not to embarrass the ladies and not to shame the gentlemen.

A bit farther away from Burnley but don't ask directions.

Northumberland?

Northumberland it is. This photo was taken last year but my first visit was almost 50 years ago. Can't believe it.

But where in Northumberland?

A mechanical type of clue. There is a water turbine of the same name but presented in the french manner.

Pelton?