Boat / stem post / rough-out

Description

Wooden roughed-out stem post of oak, for a clinker-built boat of Viking type, from a bog at Laig, Isle of Eigg, 885 - 1035 AD

Museum reference

X.IN 5

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Boat / stem post / rough-out

Date

885 - 1035

Materials

Oak

Physical description

Wood

Collection place(s)

Laig, Eigg, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

On display

national museum of scotland »
level -1 »
scotland galleries »
early people »
working wood