Hasholme's dugout canoe
The dugout canoe of Hasholme ( English Hasholme logboat ) from the younger Iron Age was discovered in 1984 in Hasholme in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England . It is on display at the Hull and East Riding Museum in Hull .
The dugout canoe was located in mostly water-rich clay, silt and sand deposits, which favored its preservation. It was found and excavated on the north bank of the River Foulness . Except for the boat, the excavations revealed no major artifacts , with the exception of a ceramic shard . A reconstruction of the surrounding landscape revealed that she of oak - birch - and alder woods with some meadows and swamps and many rivers and abandoned river ( English oxbow lakes dominated). The dugout canoe was made of a huge oak. The length of the boat is 12.87 m, the maximum width 1.4 m and the maximum height 1.25 m. The trunk from which the boat was made was about 14 m long, the weight could have been 28.5 tons. The dendro date for the dugout canoe is between 322 and 277 BC. Chr.
The Bronze Age Ferriby boats were found nearby .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sean McGrail, Assessing the Performance of an ancient boat - The Hasholme logboat. Oxford Journal of Archeology 7/1, 1988, 39.
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