Rare Enormous Cast Iron Lion Head Mooring Ring

• Rare Enormous Cast Iron Lion Head Mooring Ring
  You are Buying 1 x Lions Head For The Advertised Price
• Reclaimed from the banks of the River Thames at Isleworth near London following redevelopment work several years ago.
• The quality of the casting is something else - it is very crisp.
• These were designed to be used in the event of a flood in London - they are for tying up a boat.
• They were sculpted by Timothy Butler for Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s Victorian sewage works programme in 1868-70.
• Made from Cast Iron with a Steel ring. Alongside the Houses of Parliament they are made of Bronze - further up the Thames they changed to Iron.
• These are truly a one off and will never have the opportunity to buy again.
• They weigh 175kg (27 Stone) each.
• They measure: 50" Long x 33 ½" Wide.
• "If the Lions are drinking London's sinking".

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