The Barland's Farm Romano-Celtic BoatDuring 1993 the remains of a well-preserved boat, displaying many characteristics typical of Romano-Celtic boats, was excavated at Barland's Farm in the Gwent Levels on the northern shore of the Severn Estuary. This volume reports on the results of the excavation and survey which also revealed a stone and timber structure associated with the boat and a palaeochannel. Specialist sections examine the environmental data gathered from the site and boat and report on the finds which included Roman pottery, footwear and animal bone. Each section of the boat itself is described and discussed in detail before conclusions are drawn about the construction of the boat in the 4th century and what it reveals about boatbuilding in Roman Britain as well sealevels and seafaring in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary during the Roman period. Includes a glossary and catalogue of timbers. Welsh summary. |
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The excavated evidence | 6 |
120 | 27 |
Conventions for timber drawings 23640 | 40 |
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Allen and Fulford angle Area 50 assemblage Barland's Farm boat Blackfriars boat's Boatbuilding bottom planks P2 bow bottom planks breadth Bristol Channel Caerleon Caldicot Caldicot Level cargo centre channel context Corylus avellana crook cross section curve deposits diameter diatom displacement ditches edge evidence excavated F5Pt F7Pt fastened floor F4 floor timbers fragment framing timbers Goldcliff Gwent Gwent Levels half-frames inboard inner face length limber holes Lithology macrofossil marks mast step mast-step timber McGrail nails nails fastening Navicula Nitzschia outboard outer bottom planks outer face P1 and S1 palaeochannel pattern plank-keel Poaceae pollen Portskewett possible pottery probably reconstruction Rippon Roman Romano-British Romano-Celtic Rumney Great Wharf sail samples sapwood seam sequence Severn Estuary SF8Pt side planking side strakes side timbers silty clay St Peter Port starboard station stem post stern stone strake P3 structure surface surviving Table temporary sp tidal tonnes treenail upper vessel Wentlooge Level Zwammerdam