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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Neolithic boats
Nov 19, 2005, 14:57
This mound, that has been tagged as a long barrow is curiously boat shaped.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5594

I guess the earliest boats to be found in Britian are the Ferriby boat and the Caldicot boat, both of which are Brinze Age in date and I believe were constructed using a sewn-plank method.
The earlist evidence in our islands for using boats is probably the carved oar discovered at the mesolithic site of Star Carr. I've read that the boats used there were probably similar to coracles or canoes. I guess the chances of finding evidence of a boat of this type of construction would be extremely slim due to the poor preservation properties of the materials involved.
I think I have read about antlers being found at a Mesolithic site in Europe that may have been used as ribs for in a canoe.

As for burials in coracle shape, I would imagine that a coracle was a pretty basic, low status sort of vessel and therefore may not be worthy of celebrating in a burial monument. A larger sea-going vessel, well that's another story.
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