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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854524

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/854524

NH98SW 8010 c. 90 84

N57 50 W3 51

NLO: Portmahomack [name: NH 915 843]

Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].

Possibly on map sheets or NH98NW.

Cromarty, 30th Nov. The JOHN, of Tain, Rider, was wrecked off Port Mahomack [Portmahomack] 26th Nov.

Source: LL, No. 15,803, London, Saturday, December 3 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10733).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel presumably stranded within the shallow waters of Portmahomack Bay.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 2007.

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