Maritime Museum’s Bronze Age Boat Project Reaches Milestone

Today, visitors to National Maritime Museum Cornwall witnessed a significant moment in the development of the Maritime Museum’s and University of Exeter’s ambitious prehistoric boat build when the keel was laid.Forming the backbone of the vessel, the ‘laying down of the keel’ is a momentous event in the construction of any boat and seemingly more significant when part of an archaeological experimental first to build a full size 16m long replica Bronze Age boat based on the oldest remains ever found. Andy Wyke, boat collections manager at National Maritime Museum Cornwall says: “4000