3000-year-old Bronze Age logboat to feature in Perth’s new City Hall museum display
dailyrecord.co.ukA 3000-year-old Bronze Age logboat is having conservation work done so it can feature in Perth’s new museum display. Culture Perth and Kinross have announced that one of the star historic objects from the collection is set to undergo further conservation treatment before going on display in the new museum being created in the former Perth City Hall.
The Carpow logboat, one of the oldest and best-preserved of its kind in Scotland, was carved out from one single tree trunk and has been radiocarbon-dated to around 1000 BCE.It will once again visit the National Museums Scotland Centre for conservation and analytical research in Granton, where it underwent initial conservation work for six years after being painstakingly excavated from the River Tay at Carpow in the summer of 2006.
As part of the original conservation in 2006, the logboat had to be cut into three sections, carefully packed, and crane loaded onto a lorry for transport to Edinburgh.
It has been on display in Perth Museum and Art Gallery since 2017. The forthcoming treatment is anticipated to be carried out over three weeks, after which the logboat will be stored at Granton until installed in the new museum.
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