Locally built wooden vessels were navigating the river into the late 19th Century.
Its main use was in preserving wooden vessels against rot.
Several feet above was a second door beyond which they found a small room stored with food in wooden vessels.
Perhaps the answer lay in the wooden vessel they had moved.
The spider meanwhile had been forced to release the wooden vessel.
After that he returned to the hole below the wooden vessel, which was square and about eighteen inches deep.
Surely no food thief would bother to move the wooden vessel.
She was a wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work.
They are today considered works of art and sought after by those who appreciate fine old world wooden vessels.
A similar wreck, involving a wooden vessel, occurred in June 1923.