ANCIENT ENGLISH CANOE.
An interesting relic of the past has just been unearthed in the Parish of Pulborough, Sussex, in the shape of a canoe, which was partly, inland pntho' south side of that river," The boat is, says Nature "of solid oak,- and hewn from a single massive trunk, . That it wa3 made beforo the knowledge of metal is evident, as there is not a trace of building or planking. : It must have been hollowed by means of the Btone axe and of Ire, further evidence in favor of the antiquity of this boat appears to be afforded: r by the various accumulations which had formed over that portion of it which was embedded in the earth. These 'strata' to the depth' of uine feet have, been ascertained to be loam, ,yellow :olay, ~a thin layer of leaves, followed by, a, stratum of blue mud, beneath .which-lay the boat embedded; iri'; drift' sand; -,_ The prow portion'of the, hoa(i Jay' in ilia river,, and thia k by far the, moat delipitated. The sterols comparatively intact.'-' The' presebb' dimensionsilof.' [ tbe bbailare fifteen feet by four f&st, but originally it was probably eighteen feet long.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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193ANCIENT ENGLISH CANOE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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