vessels

After more than three millennia hidden beneath the silted riverbed of an ancient creek, three remarkably preserved Bronze Age log boats have finally emerged to reveal their secrets. Following a meticulous 13-year conservation project, these vessels have gone on public display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough, offering an extraordinary window into prehistoric life in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The boats, discovered near Whittlesey in 2011 and 2012, were part of a remarkable find of nine log boats – the largest group of prehistoric boats ever found at a single site in the United Kingdom, reports The Guardian. Excavated from the riverbed of an ancient silted creek at Must Farm quarry by Cambridge Archaeological Unit, these simple yet ingenious vessels