Halsnøy boat
The Halsnøy boat ( Norwegian Halsenøybåten - also called "Toftebåten") was found in 1896 on the island of Halsnøya in Fylke Vestland in Norway while draining a bog. It is one of the oldest boat finds in Norway. The Halsnøy boat seems to be related to the Nydam ship . It dates from the Iron Age and has a C14 date from the 4th century AD. The boat was reconstructed to scale in 2006.
The remains of the boat lay under large stones. The boat is 17 to 18 meters long and a good five meters wide. It is made of pine wood , has a wide keel and above it two preserved frames made of split tree trunks. The frames are sewn together ( English sewn boat or sewn-plank boat ). You can find clamps with which the frames were attached to the keel.
Bernhard Færøvik (1886–1950) measured and drew the recovered parts in 1934. On this basis, Johannes MG Eide (born 1934), in collaboration with the boat builder Knut Arne Sørnes, began a reconstruction of the boat, which was built as a 1: 4 model, in 2005. It was built in 2007-2008.
context
The oldest known sewn boat is the more than 40 meter long boat of the dead "Solar", which was found near the Giza pyramid in Egypt. It dates back to 2600 BC. In Europe, the oldest sewn boats from North Ferriby in England date from 1930–1750 BC. Chr.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Halsnøybåten Grind.no, accessed February 7, 2020
literature
- Knut Arne Sørnes: Halsnøybåten, Frå romersk jernalder. Historia from funn til reconstructed from 2012
- Sean McGrail, Eric Kentley: Sewn plank boats: archaeological and ethnographic papers based on those presented to a conference at Greenwich in November , 1984
Web links
Coordinates: 59 ° 47 ′ 55.9 " N , 5 ° 44 ′ 21.6" E