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THREAD. Fabulous work by @ThamesDiscovery & @Nathalie_Cohen has identified a plethora of #AngloSaxon #fishtraps along the Thames. Once wattle-sided, the surviving framing posts widen as they lead up the riverbank, filling at high tide & once trapping fish in the apex on the ebb.. 
(1a. The reconstruction is of an AngloSaxon fishtrap just up the Essex coast on the Blackwater estuary via archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/arch…).
2. These are the posts of the #AngloSaxon #fishtrap at Greenwich, tweeted by @ThamesDiscovery on 3 March this year..
