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The Bronze Age lived on at Loch Tay yesterday, as a replica of a 3000-year-old logboat successfully completed its maiden voyage. A team of more than 30 volunteers worked for three weeks to make the boat, modelled on a prehistoric vessel discovered in the Tay estuary in 2001.
The Bronze Age lived on at Loch Tay yesterday, as a replica of a 3000-year-old logboat successfully completed its maiden voyage.
A team of more than 30 volunteers worked for three weeks to make the boat, modelled on a prehistoric vessel discovered in the Tay estuary in 2001.
Six were given the chance to paddle the craft as it made the short trip to the Scottish Crannog Centre, near Aberfeldy, from a nearby picnic site.
The volunteers were tasked with creating the nine metre-long boat from a single Douglas Fir, using replicas of Bronze Age tools alongside their modern equivalents.
"We used a combination, to test them against each other," said archaeologist David Strachan of the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, which organised the project in partnership with the Crannog Centre. "We'd do one patch using modern tools, one patch using ancient tools. Our estimate is that these are about a third as efficient as modern tools."
More at
http://www.heraldscotland.com/bronze-age-boat-proves-a-handful-for-loch-tay-volunteers-1.917626
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