Time Team – The Boats That Made Britain

The Eurybia Project

Using a pine tree 7½ meters in length, and adzes and scrapers made from bone and bronze, an experimental archaeology project at the Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire England aims to make a dugout boat.

The Eurybia Project

The Loch Tay Logboat

The Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust built a recreation of the Carpow logboat, a 3000 year old, 9m long oak logboat found in 2006 in the Tay estuary near Perth, Scotland.

Using a 10 meter long Douglas fir log, and recreation bronze age tools, volunteers spent three weeks to build as faithful a reproduction as possible, the Loch Tay logboat.

Makers – Great Lakes Boat Building Company

http://www.greatwoodboats.com/

Bronze Age Boat Building

Academics from the University of Essex in England set out to recreate a Bonze Age stitched boat from oak and yew withies using traditional tools. As the little preamble in the video states, the design is based on 3 vessels discovered between 1937 and 1963 at North Ferriby on the Humber Foreshore. It’s being built at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall, by Brian Cumby and many volunteers (3:15. Hello!) and will hopefully be launched in early March. 







And this appears to be episode 1 again, but is a quick recap of the whole thing and the follow on from episode 7 starting at about the 3:00, 3:30 mark.

Norse Shipbuilding

I’ve become increasingly interested in how the Norse built their ships. Just wooden ship building in general. I guess building a kayak has whetted my appetite for building bigger wooden vessels. A silly notion to spend any time dreaming about maybe, but still a fascinating subject to study.
http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/norse-shipbuilding.htm

Bronze Age Boat Building

Fantastic series of posts from someone on one of the forums I frequent, detailing the process of building a Bronze Age boat - including making the bronze tools to make it - for the BBCs terrific Time Team.

I’ll provide a list here so that you can view them in order (rather than the backwards order a blog posts them.)

bronze-age-woodworking-adzes-and-axes
more-bronze-age-woodworking
bronze-age-boat-building-pictures
bronze-age-boatbuilding-part-2
bronze-age-boatbuilding-part-3
bronze-age-boatbuilding-part-4
bronze-age-boatbuilding-part-5
bronze-age-woodworking-tools-early thoughts
building-bronze-age-dover-boat-part-6
building-bronze-age-dover-boat-part-7
boat-building-steaming-timbers
filming-with-time-team
more-bronze-age-boatbuilding.
casting-bronze-axes-and-adzes
more-bronze-age-boatbuilding.
20-hour-woodworking-marathon
woodworking-marathon-continued-just 18 hours to go.
dover-boat-launch-day-end-of-3-months work.
the boat-that-didnt-float.

Adam’s Rib – Gull Lake Boat Works

Located in Toronto no less.
http://www.glbw.ca/

Building a viking ship

Having read a rather lengthy article recently about what amazing vessels the ships of the Norsemen were, and wondering what would be involved in building one today, I was thrilled to come across this article. 

http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-worlds-most-iconic-viking-ship.html