Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728462

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY07NW 18 c. 00 78

See also NY06NW 28, with which discoveries this vessel has been erroneously conflated.

In Lochar Moss (Name: NY 006 780), Tinwald parish, "A few years ago a canoe of considerable size and in perfect preservation, was found by a farmer, when digging peats four or five feet below the surface, about four miles above the present flood-mark; but it was destroyed before any antiquarians had heard of it."

Statistical Account (OSA) 1791 (J Laurie)

A 'few years' before 1791 a logboat was discovered in a raised moss in Tinwald parish at an altitude of about 15m OD. It was discovered at a depth of between 4' (1.2m) and 5' (1.5m) during peat-digging and was noted as being 'of considerable size'. It was destroyed without detailed examination.

Statistical Account (1791); D Wilson 1851; R J C Mowat 1996.