Talk:Dover Bronze Age Boat

Role of the boat

This page could do with some information about the role of the boat, how it was different to others and so on. I will try to add more to the page as and when I can, including information about the boat as a whole. Phasler90 22:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Next steps

I have added info based on having seen the boat in the museum and read it. Most info can be checked on the Museum website, but obviously proper link/refs would be better. Needs:

• diagrams showing the museums official suggested size/format (speculations?)
• more info on material of boat
• more comparative info on other known boats, not just Yorkshire, but elsewhere
• any relevent data on what was found with the boat, giving context for the boat
• anything which tells of the boats 'life-history' and use.
• Info on the preservation materials.

I know there is quite a lot about the above things in the museum itself, but I don't remember it well and I don't have proper refs to it.

As I recall the museum believes it was a sea-going vessel and that was used for a number of years before being dumped in a small side channel off the main river, where it was quickly buried in silt. I am certain that the ARE other small things found with the boat and that the materials, such as the caulking are all described in the museum. A display in the boat gallery is dedicated to the preservation showing materials and method.

Personally, I believe that having been excavated and preserved with modern materials and knowhow, the boat is a very important specimen and that this article could become a very useful and informative one for wiki-users wanting to know about bronze-age boats.

IceDragon64 (talk) 20:53, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Width

One of the key datum for this article could be the boat's width. The boat as displayed is not an opened-out display of both halves, it really was about six feet wide, giving it a much bigger volume than a typical canoe.

IceDragon64 (talk) 20:58, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

I think we should have a Page about Bronze Age Boats- This would make a great means of comparing what is known, including quite a wide selection from UK/ Europe but maybe elsewhere too.

IceDragon64 (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Dover Bronze Age Boat. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140904040322/http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/newsrelease.asp?newsPk=1967 to http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/newsrelease.asp?newsPk=1967

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:01, 16 December 2016 (UTC)