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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Wooden fish basket. Hazel rods interwoven with willow. There is a base to the basket.
A fish basket called a ‘Welch’ or ‘witcher’. It was carried on the shoulder and traditionally used in the Severn estuary. Dated to 1281-1436.
A rare survival, this fish basket is over 600 years old. It was found with other medieval baskets and fish traps near Sudbrook in the Severn estuary. It is woven from rods and withies of willow, while its baseboard is cut from a sawn board. Basketry fish traps are no longer used to catch fish in the estuary today.
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Site Name: Severn Crossing, Monmouthshire
Notes: from archaeological work in the intertidal zone carried out in 1991 by S. Godbold for CADW in advance of construction work for the Second Severn Crossing
