entity · site_bi_dover_boat
Dover Bronze Age Boat
Sewn-plank boat excavated beneath Dover.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–1500 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe — Peter Clark (2005)Places the c. 1550 BCE Dover sewn-plank boat within European water-transport traditions.
Locator: Entire article; dating and contextual discussion - informs · defines or contextualizes
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age — Stuart Needham, David Parham, Catherine Frieman (2013)Publishes and compares Salcombe, Langdon Bay and related marine assemblages while examining wreck, loss and deliberate-deposition alternatives.
Locator: Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis
Research description
The surviving timbers document sophisticated plank-sewing, cleats, caulking and substantial woodworking in the mid-second millennium BCE. The craft demonstrates capability, not a securely reconstructed itinerary or cargo.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Maritime exchange node
A coastal or underwater record materially informs seaborne movement or exchange.
Why does this record have this property?
The record materially informs waterborne movement or coastal exchange, but it does not determine every route or social mechanism.
- The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe
supports assignment · Entire article; dating and contextual discussion
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe — Peter Clark (2005)Places the c. 1550 BCE Dover sewn-plank boat within European water-transport traditions.
Locator: Entire article; dating and contextual discussion - supports · defines or contextualizes
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age — Stuart Needham, David Parham, Catherine Frieman (2013)Publishes and compares Salcombe, Langdon Bay and related marine assemblages while examining wreck, loss and deliberate-deposition alternatives.
Locator: Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis
Referenced records
- Southern and eastern England archaeological search region · entity
- Channel and Atlantic façade interaction zone · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_dover_boat · geography assertion