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 Hasholme Logboat
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| History | |
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| Completed | c. 750–390 BC |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Oak logboat |
| Length | 12.87 m (42 ft 3 in) o/a |
| Beam | 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) |
| Depth | 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) |
| Capacity | up to 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) cargo |
| Crew | up to 20 |
Hasholme logboat is a late Iron Age boat (750-390 BC) discovered at Hasholme, an area of civil parish of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in the East Riding of the English county of Yorkshire. It is now on display in the Hull and East Riding Museum, in Hull.
The boat was located and excavated at Hasholme, on the north bank of the River Foulness in the broad river channel. The boat was situated in mostly waterlogged clay (silty-clay, silt and sand) deposits, which greatly helped the preservation of the timbers. Apart from the boat itself, the excavations did not produce any major associated artifacts, with the exception of a single pottery shard. For dating purposes two techniques, tree-ring dating and radiocarbon 14C/thermoluminescence, were employed. Both methods gave rather comparable results of some time between 750 and 390 BC, which approximately correlates with the later European Iron Age. Based on reconstruction of the landscape around the site, it is known that it was dominated by mixed oak, birch and alder woodland, with some meadows and marshes, as well as many river tributaries and oxbow lakes.