Tyne and Wear HER(508): Ryton, River Tyne, log-boat - Details
508
Gateshead
Ryton, River Tyne, log-boat
Ryton
NZ16NW
Transport
Vehicle
Log Boat
Prehistoric
Iron Age
Find
After the Tyne had been in flood and scoured the south bank near Ryton and Clara Vale in October 1926 a log-boat was found on a gravel layer beneath 16 feet of alluvial clay. It was flat-bottomed, had a bluntly pointed bow and a squared stern, and had been cut out of a single oak log. Its length was recorded as 9 feet 2in (2.75 m), its width 1 feet 10 in (63 cm), and draught originally 1 feet 6 in (46 cm) with 1 in (2.5 cm) thick sides. It was thought to be of Iron Age origin.
1388
6548
NZ13886548
<< HER 508 >> Journal and North Star, 1926, 11.x.1926, p. 5, p. 7 col. 3
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W. Dodds, 1964, The Ryton dug-out canoe, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLII, 285-8
D.J. Smith, 1966, Accessions to the Museum of Antiquities in 1957-1959, 1963 and 1964, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLIV, 245
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 13-14 no. 2; D.H. Heslop, Newcastle and Gateshead before AD 1080 in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, pages 1-22