Carpow dugout canoe

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The Carpow dugout canoe (Carpow logboat or Carpow dug-out) is a late Bronze Age boat from around 1000 BC. BC, which was discovered in 2001 in the south of Scotland at Carpow Bank, near Abernethy in the river basin of the Tay . It was excavated within ten days in July 2006 and was in the Perth Museum from 2012 to 2013 . It was then on loan to the Glasgow Museums Resource Center in Glasgow , to be returned in 2017.

The first radiocarbon dates determined the time frame in which the dugout was made between 1260 or 1130 and 910 BC. The boat, which was difficult to rescue in the mud flooded by the tides , turned out to be a 9 m long vehicle made from a single oak trunk .

The first investigations began in October 2002 and July 2003. During the second excavation, the stern of the boat, which was otherwise in the water, appeared for a few minutes so that the first photographs could be taken. It turned out that the dugout canoe was not only one of the oldest boats in Scotland, but that its state of preservation exceeded that of all others. After the first small excavations, the boat was protected from further erosion with sandbags.

Exhibition site of the dugout canoe, the Perth Museum and Art Gallery

In 2004 the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust took over the financing and control of the excavation and recovery, with Historic Scotland co- financing the company. The National Museum of Scotland was responsible for the conservation, the exhibition location was to be the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth. The recovery began in the summer of 2006. Conservation followed.

In August 2009, a roadworthy replica was created in order to research the use and properties with the help of archaeological experiments. However, the shape of the bug is unknown as it was no longer there. The boat was capable of carrying 14 men, or a ton of goods with two rowers. A 10.2 m long dugout canoe, discovered in the Trent in 1998 , which dates back to around 1440 to 1310 BC. Bromsgrove sandstone supported six blocks. At the stern of the Carpow dugout canoe, heights for the feet and a kind of bench were found to enable easier rowing.

In March 2012 the boat came to Perth, where over 82,000 visitors came to see it. But in 2013 it was loaned to Glasgow for five years .

literature

  • David Strachan : Carpow in Context. A late Bronze Age logboat from the Tay , Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2010.
  • David Strachan: The Carpow Logboat. A Bronze Age vessel brought to life , Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, 2010.
  • David Strachan, Theo Skinner, Mark A. Hall: The Carpow Bronze Age Logboat: excavation, conservation and display , in: International Journal of Nautical Archeology, 41 (2012) 390-397.
  • Robert JC Mowat: The logboats of Scotland, with notes on related artefact types , Oxbow Monograph series, No. 68. Oxford. 1996, pp. 78-9

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Remarks

  1. ↑ 3,000-year-old Carpow logboat comes home to Perthshire ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: The Courier, February 29, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thecourier.co.uk
  2. ^ 3,000-year-old Carpow log boat off to Glasgow for a time , in: The Courier, March 12, 2013.

Coordinates: 56 ° 21 ′ 10.7 "  N , 3 ° 17 ′ 34.7"  W.