Redkirk Point
Logboat(S) (Possible)
Site Name Redkirk Point
Classification Logboat(S) (Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Redkirk Point 1 And 2
Canmore ID 67429
Site Number NY36NW 14
NGR NY 302 650
NGR Description NY c. 302 650
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Gretna
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY36NW 14 c. 302 650
A dug-out canoe containing fragments of iron, one of which may have been a sword, was noted by Mr Cormack, junior, of Lockerbie, being washed out of the beach at Redkirk Point, name NY 302 650, in the summer of 1954; and, in 1956, a second dug-out canoe was exposed a few feet from the original find.
A E Truckell 1955; A E Truckell 1956.
Mr Truckell no longer believes these to have been dug-out canoes.
There are the remains of several rotted trees along the foreshore and it seems probable that Cormack misidentified these.
Visited by OS (JP) 23 June 1970.
In 1954 and 1956 respectively two possible logboats were exposed by marine erosion in the estuarine clay of the N shore of the Solway Firth. Neither of them was preserved or recorded in detail, and they may have been mis-identified trees.
1. The first discovery contained fragments of rusted iron, one of which was possibly a sword.
2. The second was found 'a few feet' away.
A E Truckell 1955; A E Truckell 1956; R J C Mowat 1996.
