Construction of the pipeline hit a small hitch last year when excavation uncovered a Bronze Age canoe, widely reported in the media. What the media conveniently omitted was the fact that the pipeline ploughed through an entire Bronze Age village in the process of retrieving this canoe.
Oddly enough, despite the fact that the canoe was discovered in Pembrokeshire, the canoe was donated to the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, where it is held in Newport. As it turns out, GGAT is a statutory consultee for Phases 1 and 2 of the pipeline route. Maybe this would explain GGAT's silence over this act of wanton destruction...
Archaeologists are still uncertain as to whether the object is definitely a canoe, or maybe a trough of some kind. Well, if it's a trough, it's not hard to spot the snouts...
Oddly enough, despite the fact that the canoe was discovered in Pembrokeshire, the canoe was donated to the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, where it is held in Newport. As it turns out, GGAT is a statutory consultee for Phases 1 and 2 of the pipeline route. Maybe this would explain GGAT's silence over this act of wanton destruction...
Archaeologists are still uncertain as to whether the object is definitely a canoe, or maybe a trough of some kind. Well, if it's a trough, it's not hard to spot the snouts...
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