Fetlar Museum Digitisation Project

Fids
Wooden "fids" (the metal versions are called marlin spikes).	Click here for a larger image (large download).
1860s a) 30cm long; 4cm diameter at top. b) 20cm long; 3.5cm diameter at top	Fids were used for splicing rope at sea. These particular fids were salvaged from the wreck of the Johan Caesar, a Hamburg barque which sank off Aith, Fetlar, in 1868.

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