Thickness Gauges
At seven points along the bottom of the boat, thickness gauges have been cut. Those holes were bored from outside of the log after the outside of the boat was formed. The depth of the holes equaled to required thickness of the boat bottom. In Hasholme logboat, however, the thickness gauges were bored not at the bottom but at the turn of the bilge, and later corked by oak tree-nails.
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“For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
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