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Kilblain
Paddle, Logboat(S)
Site Name Kilblain
Classification Paddle, Logboat(S)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkblane
Canmore ID 90132
Site Number NY06NW 28
NGR NY 024 695
NGR Description NY c. 024 695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/90132
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Caerlaverock
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY06NW 28 c. 024 695
Pennant notes the discovery at different dates of two 'antient canoes of the primaeval inhabitants of the country' in a 'morass' near Kilblain. Munro confuses these discoveries with that from Lochar Moss (NY07NW 18). The area is cultivated hilly clayland at an altitude between 10m and 35m OD. The former church of Kilblain has been located at NY 0244 6958, near the present farm of Kirkblain.
(1). The vessel that was discovered in 1736 measured 7' (2.1m) in length and was found with a paddle.
(2). The second vessel was examined in 1772 and found to measure 8'8" (2.7m) in length over all and 6'7" (2m) internally; its 'breadth' was 2' (0.6m) and its 'depth' 11" (280mm). It had evidently been hollowed with fire, and at one end there were 'the remains of three pegs for the paddle'. On the assumption that the full length was preserved but that the sides were incomplete, only a slenderness coefficient of about 4.3 can now be established.
T Pennant 1774-6; D Wilson 1851; R Munro 1898; R Mowat 1996.
