In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an
ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own
account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years
since the first boat find. The importance of this and the
subsequent finds was only fully recognised after World War II, when
the new technique of carbon-14 dating revealed that the Ferriby
Boats were built before 1000 BC. This makes them the oldest
plank-built boats found anywhere in the world apart from Ancient
Egypt and the Aegean; they predate any similar craft in Northern
Europe by half a millennium and present evidence for a style of
boat building previously unknown. The excavation and preservation
of the boats presented many problems, not least the constant battle
with mud and the tide. Over the years the author pioneered methods
of excavating and recording which have since become standard in the
field of maritime archaeology. This book also presents a realistic
reconstruction of the boats with estimates of its performance. They
suggest a capacity for navigation at this time not previously
imagined and add a new and fundamental dimension to the history of
man's relationship with the sea.
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