Situated close to one of the Bradley Fen round houses was a large oval-shaped pit-well that had been lined with a long rectangular wooden box. This would have supported the sides of the pit and helped ensure a clean water-source. Only a few of the side pieces of the box survived but the base was extremely well preserved, and yet there were attributes of the base piece which appeared unconnected to the overall construction. Closer examination revealed it to be a fragment of a logboat or dugout canoe. An intact comparable vessel had earlier been found in Peterborough itself. The logboat fragment within the pit measured 1.80m in length and 0.60m in width and was distinguished by two raised pillow-shaped protrusions on its upper surface. Its ends were straight sided and showed signs of being cut through, whereas its sides had been snapped off.

Maisie Taylor, a specialist in prehistoric wood working techniques, says that it likely that the boat was made in the Bronze Age as the section has characteristics that can be matched to other vessels of similar date. However, the boat was probably broken up in the Iron Age as bronze tools would have been incapable of cutting through such a large piece of seasoned oak. Perhaps our logboat had once carried the inhabitants of the Bradley Fen round houses across the Flag Fen Basin until eventually the vessel was no longer 'seaworthy' and ended its days as wreck washed up on the Iron Age shores of Bradley Fen.