howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtesy of the ddc website, next event the 4th august.
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE DOVER BRONZE AGE BOAT - TALK AND GUIDED TOUR
To mark the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the Dover Bronze Age Boat, the world's oldest seagoing boat, The Bronze Age Boat Trust has organised four specialist talks on different aspects of the boat including its discovery, conservation, display and recent research.
Each talk will include a guided tour of the Boat Gallery. The talks will take place from 15.30 - 17.30 at Dover Museum. Please be at the museum entrance by 15.15. Tickets are £4 per talk including entrance to Dover Musuem or all four talks for the special price of £14.
Tickets can be obtained from the Dover Museum shop or by ringing the museum on 01304 201066. Saturday 23rd June - The Discovery of the Dover Bronze Age Boat - Keith Parfitt FSA, Field Officer, Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Saturday 4th August - The Conservation of the Boat - Professor Mark Jones, Head of Collections, the Mary Rose Trust. Saturday 25th August - Keeping the Boat in Dover - Christine Waterman MBE, Trustee, Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust Saturday 29th September - The Dover Bronze Age Boat Twenty Years On: The Past and the Future - Peter Clark FSA, Deputy Director, Canterbury Archaeological Trust.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just a reminder of the first of these talks this coming saturday the 4th at 3. 30 p.m.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this is the last of these talks
29th September 2012
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE DOVER BRONZE AGE BOAT - TALK AND GUIDED TOUR
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Dover Bronze Age Boat, The Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust has organized four specialist talks on different aspects of the boat including its discovery, conservation, display and recent research.
Each talk will include a guided tour of the Boat Gallery. The talks will take place from 15.30 - 17.30 at Dover Museum.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Eight bronze age boats surface at Fens creek in record find
"A fleet of eight prehistoric boats, including one almost nine metres long, has been discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/04/eight-prehistoric-boats-bronze-age Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i saw that this morning and thought "our boat's a lot better than their boats, so there".
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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...I couldn't possibly comment.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.