AREAS and TYPES
The ‘giant mackerel statue represents a prized catch from our fishing past. The position of the fish suggests that its prodigious weight has caused the wall to bow in. The sculpture is no longer there. All you can see is the top supporting plate in the crinkle-crankle wall (serpentine wall)
Added: 22 September, 2023
This Score leads down between distinctive “crinkle crankle” walls. This type of wall is a traditional Suffolk design built to withstand winds and the passage of time even though they are often a single brick in thickness and are built without buttresses. They are also known as "serpentine walls' because of their snake-like turns.
Malster's Score has abrupt turnings and in the 19th century had an evil reputation for robberies. It is said that it was constructed in this way as a trap to waylay the seamen returning to their ships.
Here, in 1643 Cromwell met the local Royalist gentry and captured two cannons together with arms and ammunition. It was a bloodless affair without a shot being fired but he took a dozen prisoners including the vicar (James Rouse) and sent them to prison in Cambridge.
