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The Hjortspring boat reconstructed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jørgen Jensen*
Affiliation:
The National Museum, 1st Department, 12 Frederiksholms Kanal, DK-1220 Copenhagen, Denmark

Extract

The Hjortspring boat, from south Denmark, is an early case of the successful excavation of a wooden boat, and its more-or-less successful conservation. Sixty years on, further conservation work has given some new observations and a radiocarbon date.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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