Hylton log-boat

HER Number

346

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Hylton log-boat

Place

Hylton

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Watercraft

Site Type: Specific

Watercraft

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Bronze Age -2,600 to -700

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A log-boat was found in the River Wear near Hylton in 1880. "Length 3.66 to 3.96 m. Rectangular transverse section. The stern is rectangular in plan and elevation, the bow is rounded. Two, possibly three, horizontal holes just below the sheer, interpreted by McGrail as strengthening for the thwart, and/ or, for connecting two boats. Has not survived".
NB Miket gives a grid ref of NZ3456, but for the purposes of the HER a refined location between Hylton and HER340 has been used.

Easting

434667

Northing

556109

Grid Reference

NZ434667556109

Sources

<< HER 346 >> N R Whitcomb, 1968, Two Prehistoric Dug-out Canoes from the River Wear at Hylton... Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, pp. 297-301; Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, RPM, 1977, Possible Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age dug-out canoe; S McGrail, 1978, Logboats of England and Wales, British Archaeological Report, No. 51, p. 217, no. 67, fig. 94; R Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 56 no. 7