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A BRONZE AGE BEACH‐CAPSTAN?
Author(s) -
WRIGHT E.V.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1986.tb00362.x
Subject(s) - brother , archaeology , assemblage (archaeology) , bronze age , parallels , debris , bronze , interpretation (philosophy) , history , geography , ancient history , geology , engineering , anthropology , sociology , meteorology , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language
Summary. The interpretation of a timber found by the writer and his brother in 1939 at the North Ferriby boat‐site as part of an apparatus for hauling boats has stood for nearly forty years. Recent study of ethnographic parallels has suggested a significant modification of the reconstruction proposed in 1947. The revised hypothesis is examined and compared with recent beach‐capstans from Northern Europe. While the attribution to the Bronze Age cannot now be proved, the assumption is made that the object is part of a single assemblage of discarded debris around the three major fragments of plankbuilt boats reliably dated to c 1500 BC.