L'ÉPAVE DE BON-PORTÉ ET LES BATEAUX COUSUS DE MÉDITERRANÉE

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Summary Several theories have been proposed to date to explain the unusual assembly method employed in the Bon-Porté wreck or the sixth century BC. None of these appears to be totally satisfactory and if it is likely, as Lucien Basch has suggested, that the Bon-Porté ship is the original sewn ship, it is on the other hand hardly probable that it had been totally assembled with horizontal dowels after the oblique holes for the ligatures had been totally blocked with small dowels. The little-known wreck of a sewn ship of the Roman period found near Nin in Yugoslavia would appear to provide the answer. The ligatures, which are still in place, are in effect secured in position by the dowels and this is certainly the precise role of the small oblique dowels which were found in the Bon-Porté wreck. Such a practice appears to have been common since there is evidence of it in an Iron Age wreck found at Ljubljana, in the Roman ship at Cervia and in the Medieval wreck at Pomposa. It is also to be found in Sweden in...

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