Chance to step into Brigg's past as Heritage Centre opens its doors

I see that there is a notice on the entrance door of the Heritage Centre indicating that it will be temporarily closed during the period - 24th Dec to 24th Jan - during the installation of the Brigg 'Raft' - the Bronze Age plank and sewn boat.

The boat was first discovered in 1888, a few after the Brigg Logboat was discovered, but It does niggle me that the date of the Brigg 'Raft's' escavation is regularly given as '1973'.

For example, '1973' appears in the main posting and the same date appears on NLC's notice on the Heritage Centre's entrance.

It was actually excavated in 1974. In 1973, a small team from the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich visited the site at the Glanford Boat Club on Island Carr and using information from the 1888 survey, dug an small exploratory trench to establish the 'Raft's'; location.

A much larger archaeological team returned in the spring of 1974 and excavated the 'Raft' - removing it to Greenwich.

Before NLC spends money on informative brochures about the Heritage Centre and it forthcoming main attraction, please could someone proof read and correct mistakes by cross-referencing to factual information, before such related information is published.

Dubhglas - it really depends on whether you accept the word as a proper noun, or an ordinary noun....It could be decribing the (Ancholme) river valley as ' a dark black/grey (dubh) stream (glas) - accepting that the valley, b4 drainage was an inhospitable boggy place...
It seems to be Celtic in origin and gives name to Douglas (Scottish).
For interest, there's a Dubh Glas whisky distillery in Glasgow.

Apparently, he gaining support from other academics.
If Arthur existed then he was a C5th/6th Celtic leader fighting off the invading Saxons.
This was the transient time of post-Roman when the indigenous population was assuming land ownership and self-government.
It was about 600 years later that such people as Geoffery of Monmouth wrote a much fictional account of King Arthur....and the Winchester Round Table seems to date from a similar period.
Later myths put Arthur at Tintagel and there is some suggestion that the River Camel was related to Camelot.....although the derivation of its name, Cambo-glanna (it's than GLAN again, Snotor) means Crooked Bank (of river).
As you already appreciate the Celtic word,GLAN (meaning river bank) could also apply to GLANFORD - river-bank ford.
Dr Leahy suggests that's its six to a half dozen which derivation of Glanford Brigg one accepts - is it early English (gleam) meaning 'place of merriment', or the Celtic word 'Glan' meaning river bank, or such like.
One of Dr Leahy's main facets is that the Arthur-lke leader would have been in the area of mass Saxon invasion....not some safe backwater as Wales, or Cornwall, which were relatively safe havens for the Celts. As such, this part of Lincolnshire becomes a very strong candidate.
It does make sense that local tribes and their leaders would put up some defence against the ever-massing Viking invaders - taking over Wrawby, Scawby, Barnetby, Crosby et al...
Indeed, as already suggested, the Anglo-Saxon sword-belt buckles finds along the Ancholme valley suggest that some pitch battles took place,

I have his book Phred, and read it thoroughly. He stretches all the information out with maybes, to build something with little substance. He even proposes that the Ancolme was known at the time as both the Glein river AND the Dubhglas river, while suggesting that the current name also has a Celtic origin. It can't be all three! The only reason for placing Arthur in Lincolnshire is that he fought his battles "in regio Linnuis". It's fair to suggest that it could be Lindsey, but he's really forcing all the bits to fit that one identification.

@snotor....

a. His argument is coherent...according to KL there is much evidence both primary and secondary...and is apparently gaining support. It must also be acknowledged that he is a recognised Anglo-Saxon expert.

b.I introduced him to Cllr Rob Waltham....and there is a good chance that KL will be giving a talk on the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Lincolnshire at the Heritage Centre.