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Wooden Wedge. Coin du Bois

Accession Number

260.2008.1

Object Name

Wooden Wedge. Coin du Bois

Created

29/10/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

29/10/2008

Brief Description

Wooden wedge with kern mantle sling. Round hanger hole. Wedge shape with straight end.

Materials

wood, nylon

Dimensions

Wedge -22(l) x 4(w) x 4(d) cms

Number Of Objects

1

Colour

brown, blue sling

Provenance

The 'old school' liked to use French terms for climbing gear back in the day and it came to pass that mountaineer and cameraman extraordinaire, John Cleare, sent me this lovely Coin du Bois (wedge of wood) which he had made for a televised ascent of The Old Man of Hoy in 1967. It had been lying in his loft for 48 years when he donated it in 2015.
Rusty Baillie, Chris Bonnington and Dr Tom Patey used wooden wedges on the first ascent of Hoy in 1966, so John Cleare took some along for the TV spectacular in 1967 - some were used, some were not.
Interestingly, founder of our Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, recovered a wooden wedge from Hoy in 2015 which you'll find elsewhere in the collection.

Acquisition Date

29/10/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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