Reference

Date 1975

Event ID 640473

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/640473

Eilean Rudha an Ridire, Sound of Mull, Argyll: HMS Dartmouth. Further work in 1974, carried out in conjunction with the St Andrews Institute of Maritime Archaeology, has been directed towards clearing and recording the extensive structural remains of the ship.

Finds made in the course of these investigations include pottery and glassware, clay pipes, a comb, a razor, navigational instruments and slates, mica lozenges from the stern windows, pewter plates and spoons, wooden and bone knife handles, part of a gimballed cabin lamp, a bronze mortar, brass weights, a flintlock pistol, the stock of a Highland musket, a Celtic ring-brooch, leather shoes, pieces of rope, and a variety of rigging fittings.

Conservation of this material is being undertaken by the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh.

J Cherry 1975.