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Description
A number of oak logboat fragments to have emerged in 1996-7 from a layer of peat, underlying a layer of marine mud which forms the western shoreline of Larne Lough. One piece consists of a floor with the remains of sides, measuring 5.4m in length, 65cm in width and 20cm in height. Radiocarbon analysis has dated the piece at (4750+/- 35 BP) - Neolithic or conceivably Early Bronze Age.

Further Information
Coití –Logboats from Northern Ireland by Malcolm Fry
ISBN 0 85640 676 7

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