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2. Dover Bronze Age Boat - Wikipedia

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   Dover Bronze Age Boat at Dover Museum Dover Bronze Age Boat at Dover Museum. The Dover Bronze Age boat is one of fewer than 20 Bronze Age boats so far found in Britain. It dates to 1575–1520 BC, which may make it one of the oldest substantially intact boat in the world (older boat finds are small fragments, some less than a metre square) – though much older ships exist, such as the Khufu ...

3. Little Thetford flesh-hook - Wikipedia

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   The word flesh-hook is relatively modern. The OED gives the origin of the word as 1325 AD, and defines it as a metal hook with a long stail, [6] used to pull hides out of tan-pits or as a hook for pulling meat from the pot. [7] It may also have been used as a tool to prod animals. [8] The use of this flesh-hook in the Bronze Age can only be ...

4. Appleby logboat - Wikipedia

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   The Appleby logboat is a Bronze Age logboat, found during dredging of the old River Acholme near Appleby, North Lincolnshire, England in 1943. [1] It dates to the period 1500–1300 BC. [ 2 ] It is one of two prehistoric dug-out boat found in the Ancholme, the other being found near Brigg in 1886. [ 3 ]

5. Ferriby Boats - Wikipedia

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   In 1937, the first boat, known as Ferriby Boat 1 (or F1), was discovered by Ted and Will Wright, on the shore of the Humber. [6] It was a boat bottom with one end almost complete. What remained was 5.7 feet (1.7 m) wide and over 43 feet (13.17 m) long, the planks mostly 3–4 inches (7.6–10.2 cm) thick.

6. Reconstructed Bronze Age boat aces its maiden voyage - AOL

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   Using a supply list written on a clay tablet, a team of experts in the United Arab Emirates has reconstructed a Bronze Age ship. Shipwrights built the 59-foot (18-meter) Magan boat with hand tools ...

7. Anchor - Wikipedia

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   Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes that hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft seabed. The vessel is attached to the anchor by the rode (also called a cable or a warp). It can be made of rope, chain or a combination of rope and chain. The ratio of the length of rode to the water depth is known as the scope ...