Skinner Burn, log-boat

HER Number

11236

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Skinner Burn, log-boat

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Watercraft

Site Type: Specific

Watercraft

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Log boat cut from a single oak, length 4.8m, width 1.2m. Dredged from the Tyne in January 1869.

Easting

423800

Northing

562800

Grid Reference

NZ423800562800

Sources

Roger Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p 40; Shields Gazette 1st February 1869; D.H. Heslop, Newcastle and Gateshead before AD 1080 in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, pages 1-22