Context (Field collection)
Dredged up at Yarmouth.

Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label adhered to rule, marked with incorrect idno: 'A 1910.4 / Ship's carpenter's foot rule, 17th cent. / Mr Jennings, 1910'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Production / use)
Used by ship's carpenter
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'A ship's carpenter's folding foot-rule of oak.'
Event Date 1910
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Displayed as part of temporary exhibition WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND KEEPING A TALLY. Science Week March 2007.
Event Date 3/2007
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Accession Register and Annual Report give the site where this was dredged up as 'Yarmouth'; this was taken to mean Great Yarmouth, Norfolk when it was entered into the database, but it may be Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Both have now been recorded in the Place field until this can be clarified.
Event Date 21/1/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Table of small numbers at both ends may be a calculation table or be for a caliper, the arms of which are missing.
Event Date 30/1/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A ship's carpenter's folding foot rule made of oak. Two long, rectangular lengths of wood with a brass hinge at the centre; small rectangular brass plates at the terminals held in place with rivets; marked along the length with longitudinal grooves and numbers on wood and brass hinge; two small pins slot into holes when folded in half. Two terminal plates missing; hinge is stiff.
Event Date 30/1/2024
Author: Katrina Dring