Published: 2021-04-10

Logboat Discovered in Lake Lubanowo, Western Pomerania

Bartosz Kontny
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2704

Abstract

The paper presents a logboat found by an expedition from the University of Warsaw in Lake Lubanowo (northwestern Poland) during an underwater archaeological survey in 2020. It is the first logboat made of beech wood (Fagus sylvatica) registered in the area of Poland. The conventional radiocarbon date is 2350±30 BP; thus, the vessel may be attributed to the Jastorf or Pomeranian culture, as it was found in the border area between the territories of both units. Only a few logboats are known from the period preceding the Middle Ages in Poland. Other untypical traits are a transom, and a carefully formed beak-shaped bow. In the prow there is a rectangular hollow with a circular perforation inside of unclear function. One may consider it a fastening of an outrigger or other kind of floating attachment but also perhaps that the bow slot was intended either for a figurehead, for mooring, or to hold a torch during night-time fishing, or even functioned as a ‘stick-in-the-mud’ – type anchor.

Keywords:

logboat, underwater archaeology, Lake Lubanowo, Jastorf culture, early Iron Age

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Kontny, B. (2021). Logboat Discovered in Lake Lubanowo, Western Pomerania. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 73(2). https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2704

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