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Post by Roobarb on Dec 27, 2011 21:17:03 GMT
Right this one should keep you guessing for a while. Bonus points for an explanation of the rows of wooden stakes on the far shore (the two big wooden poles mark the channel for boats at high tide and are nothing to do with the short ones). Andy
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Post by ibm59 on Dec 27, 2011 21:26:06 GMT
Bonus points for an explanation of the rows of wooden stakes on the far shore Pens for seasoning wood?
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Post by pstew1 on Dec 27, 2011 21:54:55 GMT
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Post by glenclova on Dec 27, 2011 23:21:11 GMT
Is the river the Drowes and are the stakes used to support some kind of salmon traps ?
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Post by tenet on Dec 28, 2011 8:19:28 GMT
The Lyn at Lynmouth North Devon.
Not sure about the stakes maybe to stop surfers or to assist netting salmon in the good old days.
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Post by sinkingtip on Dec 28, 2011 8:57:13 GMT
are the stakes used to support some kind of salmon traps ? I really don't know if, like you, I assumed they were something to do with trapping. Perhaps WW2 anti landing craft devices ? River ? - no idea Andy but the colour of the water looks like it must be from around your way.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 9:26:25 GMT
On old maps the stakes are described as east weir salmon trap. The lifeboat was moored there temporarily until a lifeboat house on the harbour was built.
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Post by Roobarb on Dec 28, 2011 10:29:11 GMT
Well that didn't take too long! The Lyn it is. The stakes are indeed part of the salmon trap. They stand on top of two low low walls made of boulders built at right angles with a small gap at the downstream corner, an iron gate used to close the gap. When in use small sticks would have been woven through the stakes increasing the hieght of the walls. Fish dropping back downstream with the tide would become trapped behind the walls and removed at low tide. The trap was in use up until about 2000/2001 but at that time the stakes were long gone, they used to simply stick masses of hedge trimmings on top of the walls. The EA have since bought the trap and refurbished it (less the woven sticks and iron gate) to preserve it for historical interest. The trap dates from some time in the 1800's and there was an earlier one of similar design on the west bank but nothing remains of that one. The downstream end of the fish trap. Andy
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Post by tenet on Dec 28, 2011 11:33:04 GMT
Just love Lynmouth/Lynton, fantastic walks along the Valley of the Rocks and Lyn river to Rivers Meet - can taste the beer battered cod and chips served up in the Rising Sun as I type.
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