Digital image on Keeper’s computer – S:/Keeper/MyPictures/Exhibitions/DisplayNewVisitorCentre. Taken October 2003.
3/11/98 Item found on display in the Old Power House; most of the objects on display were accessioned but unnumbered. There were no likely 1987 numbers for this item so it was numbered with a 1998 number.
Exhibition Label Text:.Marline Spike. 20th Century. A rope splicer used a spike to open up
the gap between two strands of a wire rope in order to insert other
splicing tools.