3 dug out canoes … were found 15ft below the surface, during gravel quarrying in an old meander of the River Trent, --/12/1967. Canoe 3 was the largest, with an original total length of about 33ft. In excellent condition. Like the others it was flat bottomed and vertical sided, with a punt-like bow, towards which the sides converged slightly from the most interesting part, the stern, with its extraordinary dovetailed sternboard and tie-bar. A broad oak plug underneath the sternboard may be explained as a repair to some patch of rot in the parent tree. The canoes are considered to be probably early IA - Ro. (1)
See L795 for IA pottery, L796 and L797 for other canoes.

<1> Thoroton Society, 1968, TTS, pp 14-31 (Published document). SNT381.

<2> Thoroton Soc, 1968, Newsletter, p 4 (Published document). SNT1344.

<3> Prehistoric Society, 1979, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, pp 159-60 (Published document). SNT292.