| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prelims; Half title; Dedication; Title page; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Summary; Resume; Zusammenfassung; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Glossary; Chapter 3 -- Discovery and excavation; Chapter 4 -- Recording; Chapter 5 -- Description of the boat; Chapter 6 -- Illuminating the original shape of the Dover boat timbers; Chapter 7 -- Woodland management and timber conversion; Chapter 8 -- Assembly and construction techniques; Chapter 9 -- The reconstruction experiment; Chapter 10 -- Reconstruction and performance; Chapter 11 -- Other artefacts from the site |
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Chapter 12 -- The environmental evidenceChapter 13 -- Dating; Chapter 14 -- Affinities and differences; Chapter 15 -- The boat in its cultural setting; Chapter 16 -- The deposition of the boat; Chapter 17 -- Conservation; Chapter 18 -- Reassembly and display; Chapter 19 -- Discussion; Endmatter; References; Index; Fold-out illustrations; Fig 3.11; Fig 5.1; Fig 5.6; Fig 5.18; Fig 5.19; Fig 5.20; Fig 5.24; Fig 5.46; Fig 10.2; Fig 10.3; Fig 12.6; Imprint |
| Summary |
Tells the dramatic story of the discovery in 1992 of the perfectly preserved remains of a large prehistoric, sewn plank boat in Dover, a unique find of a boat capable of cross-channel sailing. It includes carefully researched reconstruction drawings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Summaries also in French and German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- England -- Dover
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Boats, Prehistoric -- England -- Dover
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Bronze age -- England -- Dover
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Dover
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Navigation, Prehistoric -- England -- Dover
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Shipbuilding -- England -- Dover
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Bronstijd.
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Opgravingen.
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Schepen.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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Antiquities.
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Boats, Prehistoric.
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Bronze age.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Navigation, Prehistoric.
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Shipbuilding.
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Dover (England) -- Antiquities
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4.240.
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England -- Dover.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Peter (Peter R.), 1959-
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English Heritage.
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| ISBN |
1848021429 |
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9781848021426 |
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