Artist: Anonymous, Catalan
Size: 98 x 47 cm
Museum: Gipuzkoa Heritage Collection Centre (Irun, Spain)
Technique: Leather
Used to moor and manoeuvre boats, to which it was attached by a rope and hurled into the water. Above a cruciform base, four arms housing a stone are twisted together into a single shaft.In Basque this type of anchor was known as arrankilla or pikatxoa. Examples have been found in underwater excavations off the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. They are evidence that Basque fishermen were operating in these waters from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.The anchor here comes from Pasai San Pedro (Gipuzkoa) and was acquired from José Manuel Olave in 1989. It belongs to the collection of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa
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