"Bronze age boat recreated at loch"

[Cynthia]

An interesting article about a group working on a logboat at Loch Tay in Scotland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/8193994.stm

[KFCarter]

Really interesting... thanks for posting that!

[Jock Scot]

I have just been watching this feature on our TV news. Whilst admiring the chaps chopping away at the log with ancient tools, I could not help but notice that it was a chain saw that felled the tree.Oh well!

[beloitpiper]

That is SO COOL! I love archaeology.

[skauwt]

Ive saw wooden log boat they have in Glasgow kelvingrove museum its about the same size as the one there going to make i think it was found in dumbartonshire somewhere

[tulloch]

Beautiful. I made a miniature one some years ago when my son was young - used little cutting tools and fire to show him how it was made. We just went to Plimoth Plantation here in Massachusetts and he got to see a full-size one being made by the Wampanoag people here.

[Cynthia]

Also, Bronze Age Grave Discovered in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/8195357.stm

[bigdad1]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[sydnie7]

Fascinating stuff, thanks for the links. One of our favorite spots is the Bronze Age copper mine in northern Wales, amazing when you learn that the tin had to come from Cornwall! More about them here.
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OK, I am tempted to fashion a joke about the "markings on the underside of the grave cap stone". . . but I won't

[Ancienne Alliance]

Thank You for the link Cynthia.


Best,

Robert