Wooden Anchors? Are there any historians or nautical enthusiasts out there?
I read in a religious journal about someone finding a perfectly preserved wooden anchor that was a couple thousand years old in the Salt Sea. Now…I understand how it could be preserved (being in the Salt Sea), but…a “wooden anchor”?
How would that work? Maybe a stone or some sort of weight was attached? In that case, why didn’t they just make the entire anchor out of stone instead of using wood at all?
Are there any historians or nautical enthusiasts out there?
Wood allows for the support of and a way to attach stone or metal weights. An all stone anchore would be much too heavy to pull back to the surface, at least one that would have enough surface area to keep a ship from moving. The wood gives the extra friction surface to allow a smaller amount of weight to hold a ship in place.
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