The Pre-Historic Boat From Brigg

Sheppard, T.

doi:10.1080/00253359.1922.10655129

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“…Folkard has recorded that the Indians of British Columbia closed cracks in the hulls of their canoes by drilling holes along either side of the crack, passing withes through the holes, then crossing and tightening the withes until the crack was sealed up (Folkard, 1901, 390). A hole in the Brigg dugout was repaired by sewing a wooden patch about two m long over the hole (Sheppard, 1910 , Fig. 10).…”

Section: '23mentioning

confidence: 99%

Plank-built in the Bronze Age

Hale¹

1980

Antiquity

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In 1972 Paul Johnstone initiated a project to build and sail a hide-covered boat which would embody the theories of those Norwegian scholars—in particular Professor Sverre Marstrander—who have classified the boats of the Scandinavian Bronze Age with the Eskimo umiak and the Irish curragh. Thanks to the publicity given the experimental model by the BBC ‘Chronicle’ series and the enthusiastic advocacy of Bregger, Marstrander and Johnstone himself (‘Bronze age sea trial’, Antiquity, XLVI, 1972), the skin-boat theory has become almost an orthodoxy in Britain and Scandinavia. In fact, however, the reconstructed boat itself clearly demonstrated the awkwardness of translating into the medium of a hidecovered frame the boat designs of the bronze age rock art, which include several features utterly irreconcilable with the requirements and norms of skin-boat construction. For no type of boat before the age of photography has such a vast corpus of evidence been preserved as for the vessel that served the fishermen, traders and raiding parties of Scandinavia between 1200 and 600 BC (that is, the Bronze Age periods 111, IV and V). The boat is a favoured motif in thousands of rock carvings in southern Norway, Sweden, and the Baltic islands, and on at least 200 late bronze age razors from Denmark and North Germany.

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Section: '23mentioning

confidence: 99%