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Ardoch

Fish Trap(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Ardoch

Classification Fish Trap(S) (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Firth Of Clyde; Inner Clyde Estuary; Lee; Wester Ardoch; Ardoch Gardens

Canmore ID 274557

Site Number NS37NE 197

NGR NS 3580 7613

NGR Description NS 3586 7621 to NS 3578 7600

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

NS37NE 197 3586 7621 to 3578 7600

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the fish trap as 'An old fish yard or yair on the strand of the Firth of Clyde a little of the farm house of Lee'

Name Book 1863

These stone built fish traps, the largest of which is depicted on both the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumbartonshire 1864, Sheet xxi) annotated 'Old Fish Yair' and the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991), have been recorded on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 2005) lying off the shore about 500m SW of Ardoch.

Information from RCAHMS (KMM), 19 August 2005.

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Publication Account (1863)

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the fish trap as 'An old fish yard or yair on the strand of the Firth of Clyde a little of the farm house of Lee'

Name Book 1863

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (19 August 2005)

These stone built fish traps, the largest of which is depicted on both the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumbartonshire 1864, Sheet xxi) annotated 'Old Fish Yair' and the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991), have been recorded on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 2005) lying off the shore about 500m SW of Ardoch.

Information from RCAHMS (KMM), 19 August 2005.

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