Blackwater Carr,Norfolk Silky shadowy fur squirming on the duckweed, looking like a paintbrush head writhing through green paintThe other day I was using my crome in one of the dykes. It is a tool dating to the Middle Ages with a name said to derive from Celtic (crom meant ‘crooked’). Although it was a gift from a friend, and it sometimes feels like a curse.
The thick ash handle is well over 2m long and the heavy iron head resembles a massive fork,but the tines are bent at more than 90 degrees back from the line of the shaft.
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Source: theguardian.com