Cockle rake

18.11.74. MDB4504

Information

An iron cockle rake with three inwardly cuved progs and a socketed handle. Found on the shore at Meols. Cockle rakes and scrapers were used for digging in the sand to collect cockles. Meols catalogue number 3673, (Griffiths, D; Philpott, R; Egan, G, 2007)