Giggleswick Tarn logboat

30 Aug 2022

Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries curator of archaeology with the centuries-old carved logboat, which dates from the 1300s. The watercraft had lain beneath the soil for more than 500 years before being discovered by Joseph Taylor in 1863 while he was digging some drainage works near Giggleswick Tarn in North Yorkshire.

Giggleswick Tarn logboat: Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries curator of archaeology with the centuries-old carved logboat, which dates from the 1300s. The  watercraft had lain beneath the soil for more than 500 years before being discovered by Joseph Taylor in 1863 while he was digging some drainage works near Giggleswick Tarn in North Yorkshire.
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