Archaeology Notes
Event ID 842431
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HU42SW 8020 c. 416 235
N58 59.7 W1 15.3
NLO: Hos Wick [name centred HU 416 235]
Hoswick [name: HU 415 239].
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as 30 October 1911). Strathavon: this vessel stranded at Bronies [or Broonies] Taing, Hoswick.
Registration: Lerwick. Built 1899. 44 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N59 59.75 W1 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Bronies [or Broonies] Taing is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2003.