Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619000

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619000

In freshwater loch, perhaps originally an arm of the sea.

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Wooden canoe dug up in the sand of Lea Shun by a labourer.

She lay 130yds from the ayre separating the loch from the sea, in

a westerly direction. Length 13ft 9in, width 2ft 5in, present

depth 5in. Had been patched twice, one of the patches being

fixed with square-sectioned iron nails. Removed to Cursiter's

garden in Kirkwall and treated with salt as a preservative.

Copies of 2 photographs sent to SAS. [R1]

Presented by Cursiter to Kirkwall Museum. [R2]

The canoe is listed in the accession register now at

Tankerness House, under no 58. No photographs of the canoe are

known to exist in Kirkwall. [R3]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]