Loch Tay, Kenmore Pier
Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Tay, Kenmore Pier
Classification Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 24902
Site Number NN74NE 22
NGR NN 7720 4528
NGR Description NN c. 7720 4528
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24902
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN74NE 22 c. 7720 4528.
In 1975 the OS noted an 'artificial stony mound... under the water' about 50m SW of Kenmore pier. This is probably the 'large sunken cairn' noted by Gillies in this locality and also the 'mass of stones' noted by Dixon which 'may be a crannog destroyed as a hazard to navigation'.
W A Gillies 1938
As part of the Scottish Crannog Survey a number of sites in Loch Tay, originally surveyed in 1979 (PSAS 1982, 17-38), were resurveyed in August 2000.
NN 7720 4528 Kenmore Pier. This site (NN74NE 22) was first recorded in August 2000. The site appears to have been partially destroyed, possibly deliberately, as it was a hazard in the 19th and early 20th centuries to navigation by steamboats approaching Kenmore Pier, or accidentally, by the wash from their propellers. The site is surrounded by a substantial amount of modern debris owing to its location at the end of the loch. Two parallel, lateral timbers were noted embedded on the E side of the crannog near lochbed level.
Sponsors: Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology, University of Edinburgh - Dept of Archaeology.
N Dixon and G Cavers 2000.
A summary of the work carried out by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology in 2004 is included in The University of Edinburgh's 50th Annual Report, 2004.
N Dixon 2004
