- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Drawing of ancient boat with notes. Plan and elevations are drawn to scale in ink. [SM 27/02/2008]
- Geographical reference
- England Lincolnshire Glanford Brigg
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1888
- Date collected
- By 1888
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1888, uncertain Found unentered: 07/1986
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Process Drawn
- Dimensions
- Length: max 542 mm, Width: max 356 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1888.51.1
- Research and responses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigg: Brigg (fully Glanford Brigg) in North Lincolnshire, England, is a small market town on the River Ancholme [AP 11/08/2006]
http://www.cma.soton.ac.uk/HistShip/shlect55.htm#SL600: Originally found buried in clay at a brickyard in Brigg, Lincolnshire. It consisted of a raft shape approximately 40 x 9 constructed from 5 heavy baulks of timber with substantial cleats carved in them and joined together by cross beams inserted through the cleats, as in the Ferriby boats. The seams between the bottom planks were caulked with moss. The raft was first excavated and recorded in 1888 (600) but was re excavated by the National Maritime Museum in 1974 under the direction of Sean McGrail. The second excavation (601) revealed a number of features missed by the first excavators including a sixth plank, and evidence of sewing holes along the edges of each plank. The cross beams were found to be held in place in the cleats by wedges. The underside of each plank was not smooth, but trimmed to a T section or fillet which effectively recessed the vulnerable stitching and perhaps helped to reduce the suction caused by the Humberside mud. Probably the original logs from which the bottom boards were made were trimmed initially to a cruciform section. The fillet on the bottom was left continuous and that on the top was trimmed at long intervals to made the cleats.
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