. A history of the Dove family : and their descendants in connection with Cullercoats, Northumberland. 85 Two Old tlie operations of taking down and rooting np theold quay wall, the remains of two old mortars were found on thesite, embedded some little distance below the surface, near thenorth end of quay. Their discovery carries us back to the earlydays of the fishing industry at Cullercoats—to those robust andstrenuous days, when the fishermen and their wives broke up. The Two Old Mortars. and ground the hard bark or cutch in those very mortars—cutch being the commercial name
. A history of the Dove family : and their descendants in connection with Cullercoats, Northumberland. 85 Two Old tlie operations of taking down and rooting np theold quay wall, the remains of two old mortars were found on thesite, embedded some little distance below the surface, near thenorth end of quay. Their discovery carries us back to the earlydays of the fishing industry at Cullercoats—to those robust andstrenuous days, when the fishermen and their wives broke up. The Two Old Mortars. and ground the hard bark or cutch in those very mortars—cutch being the commercial name for the Acdcid cdtcchn, amaterial containing, it is said, from 40 to 55 per cent, of tannin,which the fishermen use for all tanning purposes. Boilersbubble with the brown Catechu, locally called cutch, used as apreservative for the nets and sails, as we read in BertramsHarvest of the Sea. One mortar is round, whilst the other is square, with thecorners rounded, and they are respectively 2 feet 6 inches 86 diameter and 2 feet o inches scinare, being made in two coursesof stone each 9 inches thick. The cavity or grinding space inthe mortar is in each case about 10 inches diameter at thebottom, 14 inches diameter at the top, and about 12 inches of these, as seen to the right hand in the accompanyingview, is in a fairly complete state, whilst the other has notbeen so carefully dealt with. These mortars have by some beentoo hastily assumed to be of concrete, but that is m
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