Appleby logboat

Bronze age logboat

Appleby logboat
Material	Wood
Created	1500–1300 BC
Discovered	River Ancholme, North Lincolnshire, England
Present location	North Lincolnshire Museum, Scunthorpe, England

The Appleby logboat is a Bronze Age logboat, found during dredging of the old River Acholme near Appleby, North Lincolnshire, England in 1943.^[1] It dates to the period 1500–1300 BC.^[2] It is one of two prehistoric dug-out boat found in the Ancholme, the other being found near Brigg in 1886.^[3] Both of these boats contain evidence of repairs in the form of sewing of lashing techniques: splits in the wood had been repaired using birch (Betula sp.) plants held in place by oak (Quercus sp.) wedges.^[4]

The boat is on public display at North Lincolnshire Museum.^[5]

Discovery of a one-tree logboat in Brigg in 1886

See also

Fiskerton log boat

References

^ McGrail, S. (1978). Logboats of England and Wales. BAR British Series 51. British Archaeological Reports. pp. 147–149.
^ Fraser Sturt; Robert Van-de-Noort (2010). Maritime and Marine Historic Environment Research Framework:The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (draft) (PDF) (Thesis). English Heritage. p. 29.
^ "Lincolnshire Museums Information Sheet: Dug-out Boats from Lincolnshire and South Humberside" (PDF). The Collection. 1979. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ Sean Mcgrail (2014). Ancient Boats in North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500. pp. 65–66.
^ "North Lincolnshire Museum: What's Here". North Lincolnshire County Council. August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

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