Bronze Age Boat Build Falmouth Episode 1.mov

The only thing worth looking at was the blonde

Hats off. A spectacular project. I wish I'd been there.

Boy... this tune is stuck in my head, I've been humming it all day.

look here half a nak an a deken makes no boat

After watching all the episode's i think time team have got it all wrong. it;s quite clear that they had sash clamps, g clamps, steel chisels, tape measures, hand saws, battery drills, club hammers, electric planers and even pliers to do the last stitch with in the bronze age. why not just save time and money and use modern tools all the time and get the logs cut to size just like the shop bought timber used in later episode;s. Then you realize it;s not there money that the weirdie beardies are wasting.

A group of people with IQ 100 and above are trying to recreate what people with IQ 50 or below did it thousands years ago. Makes you appreciate having modern tools.

Attempting to use bronze age tools for such a project is silly. Playing with bronze age tools gives you an appreciation for the level of skill that the craftsman had, but you can never hope to achieve the level of skill required for such a project. You simply weren't born into the environment that required those skills. You will just be wasting your time and making the project tediously long to complete.

Pretty cool build, I hope the scrap was reused.

really has to be the most self satisfying achievement to build something as this vessel with your hands , what a lot of the most important things of value and respect have been lost in America as this , because our things of value and hero's have turned from doing things of this nature , to now where the couple of races in the united states such as jews and blacks never were skilled at this or could think in this manner to accomplish a thing of beauty , they have only the skills of scamming money and manipulating the blacks to do their scumbag work for them in tearing down all the important values of this great country and hero's now are scum crack dealers and jews that scammed millions out of their hard earned money, Madoff for one and the heroin kingpin barnes, so our schools and colleges teach more of how to scam someone out of their money and idealize scum like barnes, I believe the real americans need to take our country back instead of letting it be handed over to the scum dogs that are the puppets of overseas big business. or am I the only one that feels this way?

Many people seem to be over critical as to how accurate this was in comparison with the Bronze age. The fact is surely that we will never really know and that how this tree got to the workshop is largely irrelevant and has been covered many times in many other forms, this was about how the 'boat' was built, the fact that they are in a workshop is also irrelevant it may have been done in a makeshift shed or in good weather seasons all those years ago. The time lapse is fine, this video is for your enjoyment just appreciate someone else bothered to put it here and stop being so negative.

Nice and dry in a modern building represents bronze age? Not! The effort needed Felling trees, moving trees, splitting trees? Never covered! Making tools? Never covered. Without much effort you made a replica! Not that difficult was it? Was profit your motivation? This is not Bronze age boat building. You have created a fake display piece for some kind of attraction. I'll bet it looks real though! I;ll give you credit for the work but did you live in Bronze age dwellings during the work?

I find it beyond incredible that my ancestors had the time to build so small a boat in that fashion.

Ah, right. Thank you for the explanation!

The wood selected would have been one with a long, straight grain so that it would split evenly. The process is fairly simple. Hardwood wedges would be driven in and then softer ones pushed into the opening. These were then wetted and would swell, splitting the log. This was repeated until the log split completely. The technique has been used by First Nation indians in the British Columbia/Washington state region to build traditional ocean-going canoes.

According to Iman Wilkens, Homer's Troy was in England and was attacked by fellow Kelts from the continent to gain power over the tin mines in Cornwall (check "Where Troy Once Stood"). The so called "Achaeans" (Sea Peoples) originated in the coastal area's of present day Danmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain with the exception of Btittany (allied to the Trojans). They used ships, that resembled Viking ships. Homer described them in his "Iliad" and "Odyssey." Consider this....

Hi, Oh, I knew about the abundance of wood. I've also been told (by some people who know about it than I) that it's possible to grow the trees into useful shapes - even a curve. That would reduce the work to get a log like in your video. I just didn't understand how they would split the tree. I saw the method you describe is being used on another tree, in a later video. Metal spikes, but the same idea. I suppose I shouldn't have been so quick to ask. Thanks anyway. Happy New Year.

Hi, From what I gather, they would split the logs using wedges of wood and maybe horn/bone or flint. Some of the volunteers have tried experiments using tools of Antler horn and wooden wedges and these methods have worked exceptionally well on smaller ash trees. It is important to take into consideration, that wood was more plentiful 4000 years ago and they would have been able to choose their trees so that they would be strait and free of kinks and twists in the grain.

How would people in the Bronze Age have sawn the tree in half like that? An axe would be too messy, and the log might split unevenly. A saw would need to be 20 feet long (or so: I'm estimating, but I could be wrong) and at that length, it would be damn near unworkable. Plus, I dunno how a Bronze Age person would make a 20 ft saw.