Sean McGrail

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First Name:	Sean
Surname:	McGrail
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56191762
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
Ancient boats in NW Europe: the archaeology of water transport to AD 1500	Author	1987
Ancient boats in north--west Europe: the archaeology of water transport to AD 1500	Author	1998
Ancient boats recording, post-excavation, reconstruction	Author	1983
Aspects of maritime archaeology and ethnography: papers based on those presented to an international seminar held at the University of Bristol in March, 1982	Author	1984
Logboats of England and Wales with comparative material from other countries	Author	1978
Logboats of England and Wales, with comparative material from European and other countries	Author	1978
Maritime Celts, Frisians and Saxons: papers presented to a conference at Oxford in Nove...	Editor	1990
Sewn plank boats: archaeological and ethnological papers based on those presented to a conference at Greenwich in November, 1984	Author	1985
Sources and techniques in boat archaeology: papers based on those presented to a symposium at Greenwich in September 1976, together with edited discussion	Issue editor	1977
The Barland's Farm Romano-Celtic boat	Author	2004
The Brigg 'raft' and her prehistoric environment South Humberside	Issue editor	1981
The archaeology of medieval ships and harbours in northern Europe: papers based on those presented to an international symposium on boat and ship archaeology at Bremerhaven in 1979	Issue editor	1979
The building and trials of the replica of an ancient boat: The Gokstad faering. Part 1, Building the replica; Part 2, The sea trials	Author	1974
The ship: rafts, boats, and ships from prehistoric times to the medieval era	Author	1981
Woodworking techniques before AD 1500: papers presented to a symposium at Greenwich in September, 1980, together with edited discussion	Issue editor	1982

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
A medieval logboat from Giggleswick Tarn, Yorkshire N	Author	1978
A medieval logboat from the R Calder at Stanley Ferry, Wakefield, Yorkshire [W]	Author	1981
A prehistoric plank boat fragment and a hard from Caldicot Castle Lake, Gwent, Wales	Author	1991
A sewn plank boat and a hard from Caldicot Castle Lake, Gwent, Wales	Author	1991
An introduction to logboats	Author	2010
Assessing the performance of an ancient boat - the Hasholme logboat	Author	1988
Axe, adze, hoe or slice?	Author	1977
Barland's Farm, Magor, Gwent: A Romano Celtic Boat Find	Author	1994
Barland's Farm, Magor, Gwent: a Romano-Celtic boat	Author	1994
Basil Greenhill CB, CMG, BA, PhD, FRHistS, FSA	Author	2003
Boats and boatmanship in the late prehistoric southern North Sea and Channel region	Author	1990
Boats of Bronze Age Britain	Author	1980
Cross-channel seamanship and navigation in the late 1st millennium BC craft, sea-routes, landfalls	Author	1982
Early British boats and their chronology	Author	1975
Early boat-building techniques in Britain and Ireland - dating technological change	Author	1987
How were vessels designed before the late-medieval period?	Author	2003
Maritime archaeology in Britain	Author	1989
Medieval logboats	Author	1979
Need we wreck the past? Britain's maritime heritage neglected	Author	1987
Notes and News; Boat ethnography and maritime archaeology [with sp...	Author	1984
Paddles, poles and navigation: early water transport, part 2	Author	1986
Prehistoric boats of Europe: early water travel, part 1 Ferriby, Brigg, Hasholme, and Broighter boats	Author	1986
Prehistoric boats, timber, and woodworking technology	Author	1979
Prehistoric water transport in N W Europe current state of knowledge	Author	1989
Problems in Irish nautical archaeology	Author	1976
Recent work on the R Hamble wreck near Bursledon, Hampshire	Author	1993
Reconciling tree-ring sampling with conservation	Author	1981
Recovering the Hasholme logboat extraction from mud using cradle	Author
Romano-Celtic boats and ships: characteristic features	Author	1995
Some principles for the reconstruction of ancient boat structures	Author	2006
The Brigg `raft': a flat-bottomed boat	Author	1994
The Brigg raft re-examined	Author	1975
The Brigg raft re-excavated	Author	1975
The Giggleswick Tarn logboat	Author	1979
The Hasholme logboat	Author	1985
The Tredunnoc boat	Author	1989
The United Kingdom Advisory Committee on historic wreck sites	Author	1990
The archaeology of wooden boats	Author	1975
The future of the Designated Wreck site in the R Hamble	Author	1993
The high speed capabilities of ancient boats	Author	1977
The re-assessment and reconstruction of excavated boats	Author	2007
The shipment of traded goods and of ballast in antiquity	Author	1989
The theoretical performance of a hypothetical reconstruction of the Clapton logboat	Author	1990
To clench or to rivet; that is the question	Author	2004
Towards a classification of water transport	Author	1984
University courses in maritime archaeology	Author	1994