Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646723

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY75SE 8003 c. 769 546

N59 22.6 W2 24.4

NLO: Linklet Bay [name centred HY 778 542]

North Ronaldsay [name: HY 75 54].

Possibly on map sheet HY75NE.

Not to be confused with HY75NE 8024.

Formerly entered as HY75SE 36 at cited location HY 769 546 [N59 22.6 W2 24.4].

The 'Eva' was lost with a cargo of bricks and tiles, in Linklet Bay near Sandsheen in 1830. Formerly a warship. The hull was built of oak and became deeply embedded in the sand. An outline could be seen near low water mark at spring tides. It is unlikely that these traces are now visible.

Typescript list of North Ronaldsay wrecks in possession of Mrs C Muir, Garso 1979.

Visited by R G Lamb 1979.

(No classification specified: cargo cited as bricks and tiles, and date of loss as 1830). Eva: this vessel was lost at North Ronaldsay.

(Location of loss cited as N59 22.0 W2 25.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandsheen is not noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Linklet Bay is an extensive but ill-defined embayment set into the E coast of North Ronaldsay.

The reference to this vessel having formerly been a warship may suggest conflation with the loss that is cited as HY75NE 8024.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 May 2005.