Blaydon Haugh, River Tyne, log-boat

HER Number:
596

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon Haugh, River Tyne, log-boat

Place:
Blaydon

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Vehicle

Site Type: Specific:
Log Boat

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Iron Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
As a result of a big flood in the Tyne, one end of the logboat was found sticking out above the sand, between high and low water-mark, about 50 yds. above Scotswood Railway Bridge, on the south side of the Tyne on 18th March 1881. When it was dug out of the sand it was jet black and as soft as a ripe cheese, but W. A. Hoyle of Denton dried it out, and subsequently displayed it at Denton Hall. There is no information about its final fate, nor any reliable estimate of its date.

Easting:
1962

Northing:
6381

Grid Reference:
NZ19626381

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 596 >> W.A. Hoyle, 1885, An Early British Canoe, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, I (for 1882-4), p. 40 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1887, Denton Hall, Vol. 2, II (for 1885-6), p. 42 G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 8 W. Dodds, 1964, The Ryton dug-out canoe, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLII, p. 287 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 24, no. 11; D.H. Heslop, Newcastle and Gateshead before AD 1080 in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, pages 1-22