The Crossens Canoe.

This ancient canoe was found on a drained section of Martin Mere close to Crossens, by a farmer in 1899.
Carbon dating has identified the canoe as being from about AD535 which tells us that people have been fishing on the marshland mosses nearly 1500 years ago.
When it was found, the canoe had been repaired with small lead sheets and a musket was discovered inside it. It's possible that the canoe was still in use or was found and reused many hundreds of years after it was made.
Eleven other canoes have been recovered from Martin Mere but this is the only one to survive.
This canoe has been treated to preserve it and it is displayed in the newly refurbished Atkinson Building which contains the art gallery, theatre and library. The above information is taken from the exhibit's plaque.