Unknown: Milton Sands, Kirkcudbright Bay, Solway Firth

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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16 September 1959. A site is shown at position 54 48 43N, 004 05 12W on chart 2207.

Hydrographic Office 1995.

Unknown: stranded. [No further information].

(Location cited as N54 48.72 W4 5.20).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The cited location falls on the W side of Kirkcudbright Bay, within the area of Milton Sands. It is apparently in an intertidal context.

The implicit classification (by Whittaker) of this obstruction as a wreck is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 January 2002.

UKHO Identifier : 005374

Feature Class : Wreck

Wreck Category : Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructure

State : LIVE

Classification : Unclassified

Position (Lat/long) : 54.81198,-4.08688

Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)

WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 54.81206,-4.08814

WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)

Previous Position : 54.81195,-4.08667

Position Method : Air photography

Position Quality : Precisely known

Depth Quality : Depth unknown

Water Depth : -3

Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide

Name : UNKNOWN

Bottom Texture : Sand

Contact Description : None reported

Original Sensor : None reported

Last Sensor : Video Sensor

Original Detection Year : 1959

Last Detection Year : 1984

Original Source : Survey Vessel

Last Source : Other

Surveying Details : **H5106/59 16.9.59 ST SHOWN IN 544843N, 040512W ON SURVEY [K2207]. NC 1344.

POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE

**28.2.00 SHOWN AS OUTLINE OF WK [STRANDED] IN 5448.719N, 0405.213W [OGB] ON PHOTOPLOT PG 1832/1 [PHOTOS DTD 1984]. CHART AS ST. NE 1344.

Chart Symbol : ST

Date Last Amended : 28/02/2000

Date Position Last Amended : 28/02/2000

During the 2015 community engagement fieldwork for SAMPHIRE, a vessel was reported to the team by Keith Armstrong-Clark, the local harbour master at Kirkcudbright. The remains of a vessel identified by locals as the Monrieth of Wigtown are located south of Kirkcudbright in Goat Well Bay. The vessel is visible at low tide and the SAMPHIRE team was able to visit the site during community engagement fieldwork. Later research demonstrated that this site was already known but the SAMPHIRE project has been able to gather some additional images and construction detail.

The remains consist of a wooden hull, complete from stem to stern, though much of the lower hull is still buried in the intertidal sands. The exposed portions of the vessel consist of second and third futtocks and the remaining stem and stern structures. The exposed remains are heavily covered in seaweed but iron fastenings are still visible. It is probable that wooden treenails were used in the construction as well but were not visible due to the vegetation.

The Monrieth was a schooner built in Wigtown in 1876 with a gross registered tonnage of 64 tons. The vessel ran aground on the 11th of November 1900, with a cargo of stone bound for Kirkcudbright. The National Inventory lists two entries for this site. One relates to the reported loss of the vessel and current location of the vessel (CANMORE 125031). This entry includes notes of an entry about the site made by the Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) project in 2013. A second entry (CANMORE 101629) relating to the same wreck appears in the National Inventory and is derived from UKHO entries and aerial surveys in the same vicinity. A plaque commemorating the wreck has been erected nearby.

Coordinates: 265905,548355

Accuracy: 10m

SAMPHIRE ID: 157