Find Spot record 500 - Warrington Logboat 1

Logboat dredged up in early Sept 1893 during work on the new course of the Mersey across Arpley Meadows. It lay c.20-25yds N. of the former bank of the river, at a depth of c.18ft below ground. Boat is 19ft 8 1/2ins long x a minimum of 2ft 9ins wide & c.14ins deep. On a plan reporting this find c.25ft E. of the boat is a note - 'Rough piles with brushwood behind seen at low water' - no further details (1). Examined by McGrail 1974. Length now 3.12m (10ft 3ins), so 0.14m has apparently been lost. Made of oak, rounded traverse section with rounded ends. Sides taper away from beaked end. Classified as canoe form. Radiocarbon date 760 BP+/-60 ie c.ad 1190 (Q-1390)(2)(3).

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 10/97-106 Madeley C 1894 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> British Archaeological Reports, 51/vii+287-288 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, 79/no.15 (Book). SCH3046.

<6> Armstrong A L, 1933, Proceedings of the Warrington Literary & Philosophical Society, 1927 (Book). SCH2739.

<7> Society of Antiquities London, 1921-2014, The Antiquaries Journal, 6/121-51 Fox C 1926 (Journal/Periodical). SCH284.

<8> Unknown, 1875-1960, Warrington Examiner, 07/02/1931 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH3682.

<9> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.228 & 606 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.