Bog finds & Logboats

Presumably ancient lakes and moors were used for sacrifice. In recent times many finds have been made in bogs and moss: deliberately bent swords, logboats, other boats and executed people.

In Europe, hundreds of logboats (dugouts) have been found in bogs and sweetwater lakes. The oldest are c 9000 years old, the youngest are c 250 years old in most of Europe, but as young as c 100 years in the Baltic States and Russia. Some of these logboats are listed among the Nordic and Worldwide finds. Some replicas have been made. Most logboats found in bogs are probably not sacrificed offerings. Such logboats may simply have been abandoned in lakes or riverbeds that later dried-out.

• Nydam Boats, sacrificed weapons and boats in Danish bog
• Bodies of the Bogs, Archaeology, December 1997 
• National Museum of Dublin displays a very large logboat. It is made of oak, and over 10 metres long. In Ireland, more than 400 logboats have been found.
• Estonian Maritime Museum displays a logboat built as recently as the 1880s.
• The log-boat building camp i Estonia is an effort to maintain the logboat building tradition.