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Hill Of Ardmore, Old Fish Yair

Fish Trap (19th Century)

Site Name Hill Of Ardmore, Old Fish Yair

Classification Fish Trap (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Firth Of Clyde; Inner Clyde Estuary

Canmore ID 125825

Site Number NS37NW 27

NGR NS 3170 7922

NGR Description NS 3161 7913 to NS 3187 7921

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Cardross (Argyll And Bute)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

NS37NW 27 3161 7913 to 3187 7921

Formerly entered in error as NT37NW 27 (Auchinfroe House) which duplicated NS37NW 22

NS 3170 7922. An old fish yair is depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 scale map (1991), running in a NE direction from the shore below the Hill of Ardmore above the mean low water springs.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) March 1999.

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Note (March 1999)

Formerly entered in error as NT37NW 27 (Auchinfroe House) which duplicated NS37NW 22

NS 3170 7922. An old fish yair is depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 scale map (1991), running in a NE direction from the shore below the Hill of Ardmore above the mean low water springs.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) March 1999.

Desk Based Assessment (19 June 2017)

This L-shaped fish trap comprises a low spread of rubble up to 8m in thickness that extends 210m NE from the inter-tidal shore below the Hill of Ardmore before turning and running a further 110m to the SE. The trap is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Dumbartonshire 1865, Sheet XVII.14), at which time it may have still been in use. However, the 2nd edition of the map (1898, Sheet 017.1) annotates it ‘Old Fish Yair’, indicating that by that time it was no longer in use.

Information from HES Survey and Recording (AMcC) 19 June 2017.

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