Discovered a 3,400 year old Egyptian Stone Anchor.

[Montanan]

Okay, let the debate begin, will this recently discovered 3,400 year old, Egyptian Stone Anchor drag easily or it will set and hold well?

https://abcnews.go.com/International...ve_twopack_hed

[IslandHopper]

Early ROCKna ?

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by IslandHopper

Early ROCKna ?

Winning response.

[ozsailer]

Nope I thing it would EXCELL at anchor right

[Reefmagnet]

I dunno, looking at all the instructions that came with it, it must have been a bear to use.

[Pegu Club]

I suspect that it is one size larger than the manufacturer recommended....

[Tillsbury]

There wouldn't be hieroglyphs on an anchor. That was a much more important building, that someone pulled down and made into an anchor.

Yes, I believe it could have been part of a Fortress

[groundtackle]

It really comes up clean.

[capt_TE]

It set and hold quite well as 3,400 year old

[Kelkara]

I'm not very good at reading hieroglyphs, but I think it's called ... an ANKH-or.

[BugzyCan]

Looks more like a Mahjong piece than an anchor to me.

[Dsanduril]

The instructions printed right on the anchor clearly show that the shackle bow goes through the hole in the anchor shank, the shackle pin goes through the rode

[groundtackle]

Interesting, neither concave or convex.

[bobnlesley]

That slab might not be all of it?
I saw several historic Polynesian anchors as we crossed the Pacific which were also stones with a hole in them, but in addition they had a suitably sized lump of wood jambed/secured into the hole at a 45*ish angle, presumably that bit into the seabed, whilst the rock provided weight, those Egyptians might've done similar?

[Davie J.]

I think it would hold as well as a Danforth on a rocky bottom.