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Woerden was a town located on the most important brandi ofthe Rhine in the Roman period. Originally, this town was a castellum of limes. A boatfrom the 2nd century AD was found here of which 10m from the prow was exposed. It was impossible to excavate further as the trench had reached a square surrounded by old houses that was part of a listed area. The wreck had a great deal of detail in common with other Roman flat-bottom boats found until now (dugout bilge, frames, thwart and mast-step timbers). But the rise of the prow ended in a thick transom, carved into the mass, somewhat similar to the point of the poop of the plank barge used on the river Adour described by François Beaudouin. This transom was probably above the sheer-strake, giving it a profile like that of the boat in relief on the tombstone of Blussus at Mayence. The bottom was also probably trapeziform, the whole thus making one assume that the poop be very différent from that of other flat-bottomed boats known from that period., Lehmann Louis Th. L'énigme de Woerden (Pays-Bas). In: Archaeonautica, 14, 1998. Construction navale maritime et fluviale. Approches archéologique, historique et ethnologique. pp. 69-72.