Archaeology Notes

Event ID 866928

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS07SE 8005 c. 07 71

N55 54 W5 5

NLO: Brackley Point [name: NS 090 739]

Strone Point [name: NS 076 714]

Kyles of Bute [name centred NS 040 730]

Loch Striven [name centred NS 086 723].

Greenock, 6th Oct. The THOMAS (sloop), of Rothesay, Duncan, is ashore a total wreck at the mouth of Loch Strivan [Striven].

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

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9901).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 October 1860). Thomas: this vessel was wrecked at the entrance to Loch Striven.

(Location of loss cited as N55 54.0 W5 3.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. This vessel evidently stranded on either Strone Point (to the W of the entrance to Loch Striven) or near Brackley Point (to the E of the entrance).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2006.