Dover Bronze Age Boat
- Date of account
- c. 1550 BCE
- Location
- Dover, Kent
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Dover boat, discovered during road construction in 1992, is a Bronze Age sewn-plank vessel built from oak boards joined with yew withies. Its construction demonstrates sophisticated woodworking and provides evidence for cross-Channel transport during the second millennium BCE. The boat was too incomplete to reveal every operational detail, so experimental replicas and comparisons with other sewn-plank craft help assess capacity, stability, and likely use. It matters for ancient maritime comparison because apparently simple joinery supported substantial water travel without metal fasteners.
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