Ancient boat discovered on Norfolk Broads

Eastern Daily Press UK ^ | 9/4/2010 | Anthony Carroll

[sodpoodle]

A series of scientific tests are now being carried out to find the age of the boat which could be from 1,000BC to 600AD - from the Iron Age to the time of the Anglo-Saxons.

After the boat was carefully excavated from 2m of silt clay it was taken to the York Archaeological Trust where preservation work and extensive dating tests, including soil and pollen dating, will be carried out to pinpoint the age of the boat....

The discovery is the third major archaeological find in the region during the last few months, with evidence of a human settlement from up to 970,000 years ago being found at Happisburgh, near Cromer, and Iron Age timber posts unearthed in the Geldeston Marshes.

[sodpoodle]

There goes the neighborhood!

[sodpoodle]

ping

[60Gunner]

Mom always told me to stay away from those Norfolk broads... you just never know what they might have.

[sodpoodle]

That has to be the oldest GI joke....and it’s still funny.

(old Norfolk broad;) LOL!!!!

[McGavin999]

Hmmm, seems like “someone” is trying to remind the Brits of their heritage. Maybe they’ll wake up.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Either that’s a small boat, or thems some big broads. In any event, I ain’t gonna touch ‘em, Norfolk ‘em.

[decimon]

This seems to be the area northeast of London and, across not too much water, west of Amsterdam.

Several navigable rivers and access to the seas opposite Europe. Good place for a boat.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Hmmm, seems like “someone” is trying to remind the Brits of their heritage."

They're going to need a bigger boat.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Navy men stationed in Virginia have to be careful around those Norfolk broads.

[central_va]

Norfolk Cheerleaders:

"We don't drink, we don't smoke. Norfolk! Norfolk!"

[McGavin999]

There has been a lot of finds lately. That country has almost given up on itself and it’s been drifting for many years almost swamped by foreign cultures. I think all these finds of ancient artifacts is a way to remind the Brits of their history.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Old Student]

“The discovery is the third major archaeological find in the region during the last few months, with evidence of a human settlement from up to 970,000 years ago being found at Happisburgh, near Cromer, and Iron Age timber posts unearthed in the Geldeston Marshes.”

I think this is the most interesting statement in the whole article. Iron age to the Hyborean Age, and THEN SOME! ;)

OS

[colorado tanker]

There have been a number of attempts by humans or ancestors to colonize the British Isles, but so far each one has terminated with the onset of the next ice age.

[SunkenCiv]

They yo-yo’ed from the currently submerged continental shelf to the current mainland and back, multiple times. The Welsh folk epic refers to the Sinking Lands between Britain and Ireland, and there’s a smaller-scale version of that regarding the Lost Land of Lyonnesse off Cornwall. In the Solent there’s the tales of towns that slipped into the sea during the Middle Ages. Not sure about Lyonnesse, but the Sinking Lands really happened, there’s submerged forests off the coast, and the medieval town traces are still there under the shallowest waters of the North Sea.