Archaeology Notes

Event ID 759497

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND49SW 8002 4224 9169

N58 48.5567 W2 59.9917

NLO: Herston [name: ND 420 916]

Widewall Bay [name centred ND 424 924]

South Ronaldsay [name centred ND 44 87]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

(Charted location cited as N58 48.55 W2 58.98: ND 422 916]. A drying wreck is situated near ruined piers and slips [ND49SW 57-8]. It is about 35m long and possibly an MFV.

G Ridley 1992.

Quality of fix = PHOT

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Orientation of keel/wreck = 125/305

Surveying Details

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9 March 1976. A hulk, approximately 35 metres long, is lying on the highwater mark at 58 48 33.4N, 002 59 59.5W. The keel is orientated 125.5/305.5 degrees with the bows to the SE. It could possibly a fishing vessel.

Source: Ordnance Survey aerial photography dated 16 May 1973.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel] (possibly).

(Location of loss cited as N58 48.55 W2 59.98).

I G Whittaker 1998.