54/116

A timber dog or 'ring dog' or 'timber hook' used in saw pits for moving and levering timber that was too heavy to move by hand.
This is a timber dog, also known as 'ring dog' or 'timber hook', and it would have been used in saw pits for moving and levering timber that was too heavy to move by hand. Its origins are not known, other than that it was formerly part of the collections at the Curtis Museum, in Alton.

1 timber dog: metal (iron); good condition