Find Spot record 502/0/1 - Warrington Logboat 3

Logboat found in dredging the Mersey opposite the Corporation Electric Works on 21 May 1908.Boat is 10 ft 3 ins long x 2 ft 8 ins wide and l ft 7 ins deep (1). Examined by McGrail 1974.Remains difficult to identify and measure. Dunlop called this boat 'Howley'.Since his description, one side and some of the bottom have been lost.Made from oak.Identified as provisional canoe form. Radiocarbon date 1075 +/- 60 c.ad.875 (Q-1392) (2) (3).

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 47/16 Dunlop G A 1930 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> British Archaeological Reports, 51/vii + 291-2 McGrail S 1978 (Monograph). SCH461.

<3> County Historic Environment Record, 1973-1985, Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin, 6/89 Wagstaff P 1978 (Journal/Periodical). SCH565.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68NW6/1961 (Index). SCH2487.

<5> Grealey S, 1976, The Archaeology of Warrington's Past, /78/No.8 (Book). SCH3046.

<6> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.601 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.