Sinking feeling surrounds launch of logboat replica

Lorna Siggins When a replica of an Iron Age logboat is launched for the first time on Lough Corrib today

When a replica of an Iron Age logboat is launched for the first time on Lough Corrib today, there may not be too much disappointment if it doesn’t actually float.

Archaeologists suspect that such “dug out” vessels could have been made for ritual purposes — designed perhaps to sink seamlessly to the bottom as part of a river or lake burial.