TIMBER, SEMI CIRCLE
c. 1890Wooden semi circular object with a round hole at the top centre of the item. Tapered edges, flat along the bottom of the semi-circle. Two holes at the base of the semi circle, the left hand side hole has the end of a nail poking through, the right hand side hole has broken away showing the interior of the hole.
On the back of the semi circle is faded red paint.
The Richon vineyard was originally planted by Joseph and Anton Marian in 1901 as Marians Vineyard with some locals referring to it as The Slavonian Vineyard. Joseph was Anton’s uncle and was originally from Austria.
A cellar was built at the site in 1906 but was almost completely burnt to the ground in 1914, it would be rebuilt and extended.
In 1919 the vineyard was sold to Gerald Valentine Patrick McCarthy who renamed it in 1920 to Richon after Rishon LeZion, a town in what is now Israel. McCarthy had spent time in the town during the First World War as an intelligence officer.
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Found at the site of the former Richon Vineyard.
