The Graveney Boat: a Tenth-Century Find from Kent

Excavation and recording; interpretation of the boat remains and the environment; reconstruction and other research; conservation and display


TITOLO/DENOMINAZIONE:
The Graveney Boat: a Tenth-Century Find from Kent
Excavation and recording; interpretation of the boat remains and the environment; reconstruction and other research; conservation and display
PREZZO : EUR 101,00€

CODICE :
ISBN 0860540308
EAN 9780860540304

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COLLANA/SERIE:
, 53
. Archaeological series, 3

ANNO:
1978

DISPONIBILITA':
Esaurito

CARATTERISTICHE TECNICHE:
XX-348 pages
152 b&w illustrations
Paperback
cm 20,5 x 29 x 2
gr 998

DESCRIZIONE:

Publication of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
This Anglo-Saxon boat was discovered in 1970 near the village of Graveney, near Whitstable, in north Kent, England. The vessel lay in a silted watercourse in what is now an old marsh. Pottery found with the boat is of 8-9th century type. Attempts have been made to date the boat by C 14 (AD 944 +/- 30), and by dendrochronology. The latter in 1978 gave a date of AD 927 +/- 2, and this was revised in 1983 to AD 895 +/- 2. But in 1994 it was not possible to obtain a dendro match. The boat was of oak and was clinker built, its remains being 8.9m long, 3.4m wide and up to 1.5m high. A flat keel had eight strakes fastened to ten frames. Iron rivets, some fastened through wooden pegs, held the overlapping strakes, with a caulking of wool treated with vegetable tar. The frames were attached to the strakes by treenails of willow. Three of the frames had recesses unevenly placed over the centreline just possibly suggesting that there had once been a mast-step timber - but this is far from certain as the recesses had been filled with rough pieces of wood. The boat was presumably pointed at both ends originally, though only part of the stern had survived. The boat has been reconstructed at about 13.60m long, 4m wide and 1m high amidships. A hydrostatic study shows that it was seaworthy and was capable of sailing with a cargo of 6-7 tonnes. The low freeboard, however, would make the boat dangerous in a rough sea. Fragments of Mayen lava querns and traces of hops suggest former cargoes. The remains of this boat were recovered by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Contents:
page IV List of lllustrations
X List of Tables
XIII Foreword by Basil Greenhill, C.M.G., B.A., F.S.A., F.R. Hist. S
XIX Introduction by Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
Chapter 1: Discovery, Excavation, and Recovery of the Remains
1 1. Discovery and Excavation, Phase I, by Frank Jenkins, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A.
7 2. Excavation, Phase II, by Angela Evans, B.A., F.S.A., and Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
17 3. Lifting and Removal, by W.A. Oddy, M.A., B.Sc., F.S.A., and P. C . Van Geersdaele, Dip. Cons.
Chapter 2: Recording
23 1. Preparing a Measured Drawing of the Boat in situ, by Peter Marsden, F.S.A.
29 2. Photography, by Brian Tremain, A.I.I.P., F.R.P.S.
35 3. Recording Details of the Hull, by Eric McKee, O.B.E.
Chapter 3: Description of Finds
47 1. Summary of Finds, by Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
49 2. Set of Drawings of the Parts of the Hull, and Draughtsmant's Notes, by Eric McKee, O.B.E.
Chapter 4: Dating
105 1. Radiocarbon Dating, by Richard Burleigh, F.S.A.
111 2. Tree-Ring Studies, by John Fletcher, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., Margaret Tapper and Frank Walker M.A.
125 3. The Imported Pot, by John Hurst, M.A., F.S.A.
131 4. The Lava Querns, by Daniel Smith, B.A.
Chapter 5: Environmental Studies
133 1. Plant Remains including the Evidence for Hops, by D. Gay Wilson, M.A., F.L.S., and Ann P. Connolly, M.A., F.L.S.
151 2. Report on the Examination of Miscellaneous Samples, by A. E. Werner, M.A., M.Sc., D.Phil., A.R.I.C., W. A. Oddy, M.A., B.Sc., F.S.A., and others
155 3. Molluscs, by Kenneth Thomas, B.Sc., Ph.D., M.I.Biol.
161 4. Animal Bones, by Barbara Noddle, M.A., M.Sc., M.B.Vet.
165 Chapter 6: Geographical and Historical Background, by Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
179 Chapter 7: The Site at Graveney and its Possible Use as a Landing-Place, by Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
193 Chapter 8: Structural Evidence for the Origin of the Ship and Comparison with other Early N. European Ship-Finds, by Valerie Fenwick, M.A., F.S.A.
Chapter 9: Reconstruction
265 1. Reconstructing the Hull, by Eric McKee, O.B.E.
289 2. Model Planks, by Eric McKee, O.B.E.
Chapter 10: The Replica
295 1. Drawing the Replica, by Eric McKee, O.B.E.
303 2. Appreciation of the Lines, by Ewan Corlett, M.A., Ph.D., C.Eng., F.R.I.N.A.
307 3. Tentative Sequence for Building the Replica, by Eric MeKee, O.B.E.
Chapter 11: Conservation and Display
311 1. Making a Fibre-Glass Model of the Boat for Display, by Christopher W. Gregson, Dip.Cons. N.D.D., A.T.D.
321 2. Conservation of the Waterlogged Wooden Hull, by W.A. Oddy, M.A., B.Sc., F.S.A., Susan M. Blackshaw, Christopher W. Gregson, Dip.Cons. N.D.D., A.T.D.
331 Glossary
341 Index


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