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Bronze Age boat to be lifted from Tay mud


From the Courier
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2006/07/29/newsstory8595566t0.asp

Archaeologists have been working this week on a 30ft long Bronze age log boat, which is in the tidal mudflats of the Tay near Abernethy. A radiocarbon test has dated it to 1000BC, so it is among the oldest ever found in Scotland. It was probably used for fishing and wildfowling.

It will be lifted by a floating cradle and transported to the National Museum of Scotland, where it will be conserved over three years before display.

(edit) there's a picture of the boat, in the mud, here:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1111362006 		Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
29th July 2006ce
Edited 28th August 2006ce

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