Loch Leven
Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Leven
Classification Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 27881
Site Number NO10SW 11
NGR NO 1270 0175
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27881
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinross
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Kinross-shire
NO10SW 11 1270 0175
(NO 1270 0175) Stone Cairn (NAT)
OS 6" map (1912-38)
A Crannog was discovered by R B Begg in Loch Leven, Kinross, on the 7th September, 1887. The site lay about sixty yards from the shore at a point near to and directly south of the west entrance to the public burial grounds at Kinross. It yielded a clay hearth, animal remains, fragments of coarse hand-made pottery and a rude wooden handle.
Several years before this an old canoe had been found embedded in the loch (but precisely where is not stated).
(See 26 NW 5)
R B Begg 1888.
No remains of the crannog are visible but the site is marked by a short pillar set up in the bed of the loch.
RCAHMS 1933.
The stones of the cairn marking the site of the crannog, were dislodged a few years ago, and nothing is now visible above water.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 19 December 1963.
Field Visit (2 August 1927)
Crannog in Loch Leven.
No remains are visible, but the site is marked by a short pillar set up in the bed of the loch.
Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxii (1887.8), p. 118ff.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 2 August 1927.
