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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 759497
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/759497
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.
