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Rumbling Bridge
Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Logboat (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Rumbling Bridge
Classification Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Logboat (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Rumbling Bridge; Naemoor House; Lendrick Muir School
Canmore ID 49665
Site Number NT09NW 8
NGR NT 022 999
NGR Description NT c. 022 999
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49665
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Muckhart (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NT09NW 8 c. 022 999.
Now falls in Tayside Region, Perth and Kinross District. (Boundary amendment effective 1 April 1991).
(Area : NT 022 999) Felstone celt, 13 ins long, probably imported (Information from Professor Heddle, St Andrews.), found in October 1881 in a field on the north of and near the banks of the Devon, near Rumbling Bridge, and 'immediately adjoining the policies of Naemoor' (NO 02 00).
Near it were found four large pieces of charred wood, two of which were hollowed on one side and were thought to be part of a canoe.
J B Murdoch 1882.
Local enquiries proved negative and the present whereabouts of the
finds could not be ascertained.
Visited by OS(RD) 12 July 1967.
The discovery of what were possibly the remains of a logboat has been recorded to the N of the River Devon and near to Naemoor House (now Lendrick Muir School) which is located at NO 0231 0033. Two 'large pieces of wood...seemingly charred, and hollowed on one side' were identified as 'probably portions of a canoe'.
The date and circumstances of the discovery are nowhere specified, but it is reported with that of a stone axe unearthed about 20 yards (18m) away, and was probably similarly found during drainage operations in 1881.
The area of the discovery is in agricultural land between about 0.5 and 1km NE of the scenic gorge at Rumbling Bridge, and at an altitude of about 135m OD. The River Devon is a small upper-course river which is unlikely to have been navigable at this point, and it is probable that the logboat (if such it was) was used on a former loch in the now-drained land around.
J B Murdoch 1882; R J C Mowat 1996.
