Ferriby Boats

Keith Miller, a regional archaeologist told the BBC that Ferriby boats would have been used to cross the North Sea,[3] though by modern standards, such vessels as these are considered suitable only for sheltered waters.

It was part of an oaken three-strake flat rockered-bottom boat which had been stitched together with yew withies, caulked with moss and capped with watertight oak laths.

Ted Wright had formulated this theory much earlier, as set out in his book "The Ferriby Boats: Seacraft of the Bronze Age", published in 1990.

Details concerning the boats can be found on an information board on Ferriby foreshore, on a public footpath that forms part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

In 2002-2003, Edwin Gifford and his team that included Richard Darrah built and sailed a half-size reconstruction of a Ferriby boat in Southampton.

Measuring the ring-thicknesses needed to try and match other ring patterns proved difficult, partly because the boats were already treated.

The studies revealed that a pair of bottom strakes were split from the same trunk and that boats 1 and 2 may have been felled at the same time, despite the C14 estimates, which suggest otherwise.