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Bronze Age Boat Sinks - Dover, England

A team of specialist archaeologists built the vessel over three months on the Roman Lawns at Dover Museum Photo: PA

1 posted on 05/15/2012 7:13:16 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Seems to me it would take 3,500 years to build a 3,500 year old boat.

Things never work out right when you rush the job.


47 posted on 05/16/2012 1:35:35 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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The boat it was based on, used oak planks sewn together with yew lashings

Yew did it wrong.

48 posted on 05/16/2012 1:48:01 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (May 15 - Jessica Watson day.)
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Archaeologists and Antropologists have not a glimmer of knowledge about boats and sailors. I have watched these goobers get it wrong all my life and it is really funny.


52 posted on 05/16/2012 6:14:10 AM PDT by buffaloguy (uab.)
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53 posted on 05/16/2012 9:16:52 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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Those bronze age fellows undoubtedly used some form of caulking that might not have been evident from the relic original.


54 posted on 05/16/2012 10:35:02 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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