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Ten-Year Clean For Iron Age Boat
BBC ^ | 2-9-2007

Posted on 02/09/2007 10:54:17 AM PST by blam

Ten-year clean for iron age boat

The log boat has been dried after a decade soaked in sugar

A 2,000-year-old log boat discovered buried in mud is to be put on display after a 10-year restoration project. The Iron Age vessel was found in 1964 during dredging work in Poole Harbour and members of York Archaeological Trust restored the water-logged timber.

The log boat, which is thought to have been used for continental trade, is estimated to have weighed 14 tonnes.

A glass case has been designed to house the ancient timber, which is due to be displayed in Poole museum in June.

The final cleaning of the vessel has been scheduled to finish this month.

Sweet cleaning

The log boat, which carried up to 18 people, would have been based at Green Island in the harbour.

After it was found it was kept submerged in water for 30 years while archaeologists decided what to do with it.

As part of the conservation project, the boat has spent a decade soaked in a sugar solution before being dried out at Poole's Scalpel's Court museum.

Councillor Elaine Atkinson said: "The log boat has international and major historical importance.

"It is more than 2,000 years old and represents an important part of Poole's maritime history."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; godsgravesglyphs; ironage; logboat; poole; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 02/09/2007 10:54:20 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 02/09/2007 10:54:45 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Uh, that picture doesn't look like a 14 ton boat capable of carrying 18 people. Maybe its just me.


3 posted on 02/09/2007 10:56:46 AM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: blam

Hmmmm.... why sugar?


4 posted on 02/09/2007 10:57:30 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: theDentist

Because an equivalent amount of sweet-n-low would bankrupt the museum? :)


5 posted on 02/09/2007 11:00:59 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: lafroste

It looks like a severed whale tongue.


6 posted on 02/09/2007 11:01:14 AM PST by Hexenhammer
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To: blam
Picture looks like a large sea shell. Wear your PFD in that craft.
7 posted on 02/09/2007 11:02:36 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: blam
Maybe it's an Iron boat from the Wooden Age.
8 posted on 02/09/2007 11:03:57 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: lafroste

I'm thinking the same thing. It looks quite small.


9 posted on 02/09/2007 11:04:33 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: blam

I don't know if it will float any better but it sure will attract flies.


10 posted on 02/09/2007 11:06:09 AM PST by T'wit (We have more and better proof of Original Sin than of evolution and global warming combined.)
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To: lafroste
Uh, that picture doesn't look like a 14 ton boat capable of carrying 18 people. Maybe its just me.

People were a lot shorter then.

11 posted on 02/09/2007 11:06:16 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: from occupied ga

LOL. No kidding.


12 posted on 02/09/2007 11:09:00 AM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: blam

Doesn't look like iron to me!


13 posted on 02/09/2007 11:11:05 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: lafroste

Note to self: sugar causes severe shrinkage...


14 posted on 02/09/2007 11:13:35 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Growing long hair and a scraggly beard is so easy, even a caveman could do it...)
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To: theDentist

Stops oxidation.


15 posted on 02/09/2007 11:15:06 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: theDentist; NonValueAdded
Hmmmm.... why sugar?

Because an equivalent amount of sweet-n-low would bankrupt the museum? :)

Apparently because an equivalent amount of PEG would bankrupt the museum. Polyethylene glycol is the standard treatment but expensive for a project of this size. Sucrose is much cheaper. See this

16 posted on 02/09/2007 11:17:00 AM PST by omega4412 (Multiculturalism kills. 9/11, Beslan, Madrid, London)
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To: blam

That picture can't be of the boat, it's way too small.


17 posted on 02/09/2007 11:19:50 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: T'wit
What also floats in water?

Bread!

Apples!

Very small rocks!

Cider!

Great gravy!

Cherries!

Mud!

Churches -- churches!

Lead -- lead!

A duck.

Oooh.

Exactly! So, logically...,

If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.

And therefore--?

A witch!

18 posted on 02/09/2007 11:31:13 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: omega4412

safer for dogs too ... no, that would be MEG. Nevermind.


19 posted on 02/09/2007 11:53:39 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: blam

Sweet boat


20 posted on 02/09/2007 11:55:12 AM PST by Andyman (The truth shall make you freep.)
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