Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853560

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853560

NR96SE 8006 c. 990 640

N55 49.6 W5 12.6

NLO: Ardlamont Point [name centred NR 989 637]

Kyles of Bute [name centred NS 040 730]

Loch Fyne [name centred NR 94 89].

Not to be confused with NR86SW 8008.

Greenock, 6th Oct. A lighter, reported to be the JEAN, of this port, from Furnace (Lochfine), to the Clyde, with stones, went to pieces on Aird Lamont [Ardlamont] Point, and the bodies of two men have been washed ashore.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,512, London, Monday October 8 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9906).

(Classified as lighter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 October 1860). Jean: this vessel was wrecked at Airdlamont [Ardlamont] Point.

(Location of loss cited as N55 49.50 W5 12.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2006.