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Bronze Sheave

This bronze wheel is a
sheave from a rigging block,
and was found in the
starboard scourpit outside
the Mary Rose.

Bronze wheels were used for heavy-duty or critical work, so this may have been part of
one of the main blocks used to raise and lower the yardarms. This is one of the less
ornate sheaves found, but it is unusual in that it had nine spokes, normally sheaves
would have some symmetry.

This bronze wheel is a sheave from a
rigging block, and was found in the
starboard scourpit outside the Mary Rose.

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This is one of the less ornate sheaves found, but it is unusual in that it
had nine spokes, normally sheaves would have some symmetry.