Small black fine line anchor tattoo on the outer ankle, shown on a bare leg against a dark background.

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Small anchor tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small anchor is tattooed on the outer ankle, with its ring at the top, a thin vertical shank and a curved stock across the middle. The linework is fine and even, filled in solid black with no visible shading. The ink sits on a pale, bare leg against a dark upholstered surface, with the image centred on the ankle.

Fine line Ankle Anchor

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Keep still, love, and hear the rest before the generator cuts out and the lights go with it. Ned Tallis had worked the coconut shy on the Hull fair for thirty-one summers, and in all that time he never once let a child walk off with the brass anchor on the top shelf. It was rusted at the crown and fastened with picture wire, and it was never meant to be won.

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Then one wet Tuesday in Bridlington, a lass called Maud Kersey stood at his counter with eleven pence and asked him plainly what it would take. Ned told her three balls and a miracle. She knocked the anchor clean off its wire on the third throw, and it dropped into the sawdust with a sound like a church bell skipping.

She carried it down to the harbour wall that night, where the boats sat on the mud, and told the fishermen she meant to keep it close so her feet would learn to stay put. Nobody believed her, least of all herself. The next morning she walked into a tattooist's van by the bus station and asked for the little anchor to be inked where it would never rub against a shoe.

Ned heard later that she never once went to sea. She stayed in the town and kept the brass anchor on her windowsill, and every year when the fair came back, she walked past his coconut shy without looking at it, which Ned took as the finest win he had ever lost.