Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854607

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND48SW 8004 c. 44 83

N58 44 W2 58

NLO: Bur Wick [name centred ND 440 838]

Burwick [name: ND 447 841]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND48SE.

(No classification specified: cargo cited as wood, and date of loss as February 1800). Three Friends: this vessel was wrecked at Burwick, South Ronaldsay. Capt. Birney. Registration: Montrose.

(Location of loss cited as N58 44.5 W2 58.0.

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2007.