 A BOAT which could have belonged to Llywelyn Fawr was rescued from the bed of a lake and can be seen in an exhibition this week. The boat was discovered in August 1979, as engineers on the Dinorwig Power Station project carried out work to increase the capacity of Llyn Peris. It is believed to date back to between 1187 AD and 1205 AD, and is a simple construction made from a single tree, which had been hollowed out and the side panels attached to the tree with wrought iron nails. The lake had been drained in 1979, and it was only when slate in-fill (required to strengthen the lake) had started to squeeze out compressed peat and humus from under the lake into a large mound at the edge of Llyn Peris, that the boat was literally squeezed up to the surface. Three boats were found in all, the above was called the Llyn Peris Log boat, the next find was called the Llyn Peris Boat. The importance of this find, is that the boat was unique to the area, a contemporary of the Mary Rose, circa AD 1547 to AD 1549. Made of oak, planks of wood were radially split, not sawn, from a section of tree trunk using a hammer and a wedge and then shaped using a broad-banded axe. The third boat, the Padarn Boat, can be found on display at the Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis. The Electric Mountain Ancient Boats exhibition opened last week. | 
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