Barry Links
Logboat
Site Name Barry Links
Classification Logboat
Alternative Name(s) Carnoustie; Monifieth
Canmore ID 116260
Site Number NO53SW 39
NGR NO 53 32
NGR Description NO c. 53 32
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116260
- Council Angus
- Parish Barry
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO53SW 39 c. 53 32
(Location formerly cited by OS as NO c. 49 32 and site-name as Monifieth). About 1820, when a drain was being cut in the Links to the east of the village of Monifieth, a primitive canoe was discovered embedded in the peat moss, about a mile from the shore.
J Malcolm 1910.
(Location amended to NO c. 59 32). About 1820 a logboat was revealed by the digging of a 'deep drain' across the links to the E of Monifieth. It was 'deeply imbedded' in a layer of buried peat at a point over a mile (1.6 km) from the shoreline, and may have been discovered in the parishes of Barry or Monifieth.
NSA 1845; J Malcolm 1910; R J C Mowat 1996.
