This is the web site for building, learning and playing with the history of Boats and Ships from about BC to 1089AD. 

Dark Age Boats now has a wood

Small wood in Cornwall to make us independent for basic raw material for coracles and currachs and maybe THE logboat and for other Living History experiments.

Now in Book Reviews

"Sailing Into The Past. Learning From Replica Ships"  

Yankee Jack Sails Again by Tony James.

LOGBOAT ENTHUSIASTS: Contact me if you have a question about logboats, monoxylon or pirogue and I will try to help with my extensive library.

  Replica boat...

Replica Dark Age Boat ideas.

If you would like to see a film of a pirogue being cut from a log in recent times.

Go here for a beautiful film of a logboat being created

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,188

This film was dedicated to Robert Flaherty and here are two youtube extracts showing his interest in boat people of Ireland and the Inuit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncsyA4JfCn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLERFRQl5EY&feature=related

  Re-enactment

The Pictae - a re-enactment group based on authentic replica boats.

Anybody interested in early history especially experimental archaeology and living history?

see the Natural Bushcraft site for briefings as to how to live in the Mesolithic

http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/

Coracle Society for early boating (and swims!)

http://www.coraclesociety.org.uk/

PAAS The Primitive Archery and Atlatl Society, so you can hunt way back then

http://www.spearthroweruk.net/

Bronze Age discussion group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ageofbronze/

  Iron and Bronze Age Boats...

The Hjortspring Boat and an achievable scale replica

Bronze Age Kayak

Bronze Age Boat carving

  Languages...

The Languages used on sea and land around Britain in the Dark Ages . We hope to research this soon. In the meantime have a look at the publications of Joseph Biddulph http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/biddulph/ which include discussion of Brythonic, Frisian and Germanic languages.

 If these present a challenge remember that Latin was spoken as well and you could probably get by in those days with a basic knowledge

  Discussion Groups...

Have a look at our discussion groups:

• Cerdingas
• Celtic Seas