Dugout canoe from brig
The dugout of Brigg in 1886 on the right bank of the Old River Ancholme found. It was 250 meters below County Bridge, in Brigg in Lincolnshire , England . The Brigg dugout canoe is considered to be the UK 's largest movable prehistoric relic .
The boat discovered when a gasometer was being built was at right angles to the old river, about 25 meters away. In this part of Lincolnshire there was a wide alluvial land between the two hills of Brigg and the Humber during the Iron Age (1st to 5th centuries) . The Ancholme was an arm of the Humber estuary and was deeper and wider than the current river. The Ancholmetal was a tidal area that gradually silted up. In some parts of Lincolnshire, land has been artificially raised and rivers have been made smaller and canalized in recent years.
The approximately 14.8 m long, 1.52 m wide and 0.84 m deep dugout canoe, which was initially mistaken for a tree trunk, was found in a round excavation area. However, it soon became clear that it was an enormous boat that was carefully dug up and lifted. The bow runs in a clumsy curve, the stern is closed by an embedded transverse board. In both side walls, slightly below their upper edges, there are holes 10 to 15 cm in diameter, which were probably used to attach seats that also acted like transverse bulkheads. Presumably the dugout was not moved with straps but with paddles . The boat was hardly suitable for sea voyages and probably served as a means of transport between the two sides of the valley.
The dugout can accommodate 30 men. The find, which due to its location can probably be ascribed to the time of the Roman invasion, offers a remarkable confirmation of the reports of Pliny and Tacitus that the dugouts of the Celts could carry 30 to 40 men.
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literature
- Christian Hirte: On the archeology of monoxylic watercraft in northern Central Europe. A study on the representativeness of the sources in chorological, chronological and conceptual terms . Dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1987.
- Sean McGrail: Logboats of England and Wales, with comparative material from European and other countries . In: BAR British series, 51 (1978).
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