Archaeology Notes

Event ID 798077

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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N55 49.0 W5 13.0

NLO: Ardlamont Point [name centred NR 989 637]

Kyles of Bute [name centred NS 040 730]

Loch Fyne [name centred NR 94 89].

Possinly on map sheet NS06SW.

(Classified as wooden lighter, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 9 March 1868). Margaret: this vessel foundered off Ardlamont Point.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1856. 33grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 45.00 W4 58.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and is preferred over that cited by Whittaker, which falls between Bute and Cumbrae.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 February 2010.