Lochar Moss
Logboat
Site Name Lochar Moss
Classification Logboat
Canmore ID 66143
Site Number NY07NW 18
NGR NY 00 78
NGR Description NY c. 00 78
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Tinwald
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY07NW 18 c. 00 78
See also NY06NW 28, with which discoveries this vessel has been erroneously conflated.
In Lochar Moss (Name: NY 006 780), Tinwald parish, "A few years ago a canoe of considerable size and in perfect preservation, was found by a farmer, when digging peats four or five feet below the surface, about four miles above the present flood-mark; but it was destroyed before any antiquarians had heard of it."
Statistical Account (OSA) 1791 (J Laurie)
A 'few years' before 1791 a logboat was discovered in a raised moss in Tinwald parish at an altitude of about 15m OD. It was discovered at a depth of between 4' (1.2m) and 5' (1.5m) during peat-digging and was noted as being 'of considerable size'. It was destroyed without detailed examination.
Statistical Account (1791); D Wilson 1851; R J C Mowat 1996.
