| Show Welsh Coracle Now Vanishing Skin-Covered Boats Have Ancient History THE WELSH a boat with at least years of history behind is facing an uncertain For the according to salmon fishermen continue to use their primitive craft on the River in one of the few spots where British coracles can still be seen In New licenses for coracle have been forbidden by authorities in the interest of fish Unless efforts to repeal the law are the practice will cease with the death or forfeiture the current Coracles are made by covering a wicker frame like an oversized with or other waterproofed Under various and In different sizes and such boats are found in many regions of the especially In the Orient Among numerous coracles can be cheaply and quickly constructed with such simple tools is flint knives and bone They are easy to smaller ones are light enough to be carried by one The coracle is often mentioned in connection with another ancient and similar the Irish Experts that the more conventionally shaped seagoing curragh is basically different from the true which usually keeps to the Julius Caesar wrote of having encountered the hide-covered boats of the Britons in 35 with indications that these may have beam of the curragh during the struggle in Spain against Poro-pey's the Roman commander himself used such craft for transporting soldiers across a |
