Stanwick Lakes: Bronze Age log boat build reaches halfway point

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Stanwick Lakes: Bronze Age log boat build reaches halfway point
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Fire and bronze tools are used to create the boats, which are should be ready to float next year.

Building Bronze Age-style log boats using replica tools and fire has revealed "how long and how much effort" it was to make prehistoric vessels.

"This is a massive project and a lot of physical work and it has really helped me understand how long it takes and how much effort to carve out the boats." A post-doctoral researcher in cancer biology from Cambridge, she has also found it "really amazing" to use the bronze replica tools. Despite being an experienced woodworker, "the biggest challenge now is the haft, I'm on my sixth one and I've just broken that, it is literally one a month - some lasted a day," he said.

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