Loom-stones or fishing-weights? (And the role of piddocks

In my post on March 21st 2014 I wrote about an object I had found on the shore near Beckfoot, which one of my shore-walkers told me was a warp-weight or loom-stone; I subsequently saw similar objects used to keep the warp threads taut on a loom in the Dumfries Museum. But last week, I…

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