Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653573

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26NE 8011 c. 289 679

N57 41.7 W3 11.6

NLO: Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67]

Boar's Head Rock [name: NJ 289 679]

Buckie [name: NJ 415 654]

Cullen [name: NJ 513 673]

Lossiemouth [name: NJ 235 705].

Not to be confused with NH86NW 8010.

Possibly on map sheet NJ36NW.

Lossiemouth, 21st Apl., 4 p.m., the schooner LEON RAYMUNDO, of Dover, Clark, from Rochester to Buckie, with cement, stranded on the Boar's Head rocks, 5 miles East of Lossiemouth, at 11 o'clock last night, and is likely to become a total wreck. Meantime all necessary assistance has been sent. Crew saved and now at Lossiemouth.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.

Lossiemouth, 29th Apl., 12.10 p.m., the LEON RAYMUNDO, from Rochester to Buckie, cement, reported stranded at Bearshead, Spey bay, on 19th inst., got safely off strand and into Lossiemouth harbour this morning: damage to ship considerable, to cargo slight.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,971, London, Tuesday April 30 1878.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4734).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as cement, and date of loss as 20 April 1878). Leon Raymundo: this vessel stranded at Boar's Head [Rock], Lossiemouth.

Registration: Dover.

(Location of loss cited as N57 41.75 W3 11.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Boar's Head Rock is an isolated rock which stands at the (N) end of small sandy spit roughly at the midpoint of the sandy shore of Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67), an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets. The settlement of Spey Bay is at NJ 354 652.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 2004.