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Clydebank, Erskine Ferry
Crannog (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Clydebank, Erskine Ferry
Classification Crannog (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) River Clyde
Canmore ID 43277
Site Number NS47SE 23
NGR NS 4656 7211
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43277
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Old Kilpatrick (Clydebank)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydebank
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS47SE 23 4656 7211
(NS 4656 7211) Crannog (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1958).
Carbonised, unthreshed ears of barley and many other seeds were recovered from the crannog or pile structure at Erskine Ferry in 1906.
J G Callander 1911
NS 4656 7211. This crannog was excavated by Messrs Napier's Shipyards Ltd., and the plans of the excavation are at present in possession of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (negatives). The original drawings are in possession of the Clyde Trust (Robertson Street, Glasgow). The site of the crannog was taken from the latter.
Visited by OS (WMJ), 27 July 1951.
NS 4656 7211 Investigated during the construction of a shipyard on the N bank of the Clyde in the early part of the 19th century, the site was excavated and a number of photographs are now held by RCAHMS. Due to the major engineering works at the shipyard and its subsequent demolition and landfill programme, the site appears to have been destroyed. Fieldwalking during the summer of 1997 found the probable location and a timber possibly from the original structure excavated in the early 19th century.
Sponsors: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Wingate Foundation.
A G C Hale 1997.
NS 4648 7230 A desk assessment and watching brief were undertaken on a development site immediately S of the Erskine Bridge in Old Kilpatrick. The aim of the project was to try to confirm the existence of a crannog noted at the beginning of the century (NMRS NS47SE 23), and of a possible souterrain (NMRS NS47SE 27). No prehistoric structures were found. (GUARD 549.2).
Sponsor: Dunbartonshire Enterprise.
B Ballin-Smith 1998
Note (1978)
Old Kilpatrick NS 465 721 NS47SE 23
This crannog was discovered in 1906 during the deepening and widening of the navigable channel of the River Clyde. Plans are now lodged in the Strathclyde Regional Archives.
RCAHMS 1978
(Callander 1911, 164)
