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In Market Square, bound by North Downs Way and Cannon Street, is the Dover Museum. The main attraction here is on the second floor, or third floor if you’re one of us yanks since the first floor is the one above the ground floor here in the U.K. The ground floor contains the Archaeology Gallery, and it’s here you’ll find stuff such as a wooden bucket dating back to the 6th century:

Head on up to the first floor for the Temporary Exhibition Gallery. On this day the “temporary” exhibit had a decidedly military theme with no specific era in mind:

But it’s not all military on this floor. Other services are featured as well, including fire, police, and maritime.

Okay, time to head on up to the second (third for us yanks) floor and take a gander of this Bronze Age Boat, but before we do:

Now on to the main attraction, Dover’s Bronze Age Boat:

As you can see from the placard below, this remarkably preserved boat dates back to around 1550. It was found in 1992:

And here she is:

In an effort to determine how this boat was put together, archaeologists decided to recreate a portion of it. The result is on display in this next photograph:

This Fun Photo Friday will be the first of two featuring Dover favorites. Next week we head over for a closer look at St. Mary’s Church and the Dover Western Height fortress.

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