Hasholme Logboat: Difference between revisions

'''Hasholme logboat''' (750-390 BC) was located and excavated at Hasholme, near Holme-on-Spalding Moor, in eastern [[Yorkshire]], on the north bank of the river of Foulness in the broad river channel. The boat was situated in mostly waterlogged clay (silty-clay, silt, and sand) deposits, which greatly helped the preservation of timbers. Besides the boat itself, the excavations did not produce any major associated artifacts, with the exception of a single pottery shard. For dating purposes two techniques, tree-ring dating and [[radiocarbon]] C14/ thermo-luminescence, were employed. Both methods gave rather comparable results some time between 750 – 390 B.C, which approximately correlates with later European [[Iron Age]]. Based on reconstruction of the landscape around the site, we know that it was dominated by mixed [[oak]], [[birch]], and [[alder]] woodland, some meadows and marshes, as well as many river tributaries and oxbow lakes.