Lindores
Logboat(S)
Site Name Lindores
Classification Logboat(S)
Alternative Name(s) Oldcruvie Bank, Firth Of Tay; River Tay; Cruive Bank
Canmore ID 30120
Site Number NO21NW 6
NGR NO 24 19
NGR Description NO c. 24 19
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Newburgh
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO21NW 6 c. 24 19
See also NO12SW 62 and NO12SW 210.
Two dug-out canoes were found c. 1816 on the bed of the Tay on Cruive bank opposite Lindores Abbey (NO21NW 5). The larger was entire and 28' long. They were cut up and used for lintels of granaries at the W shore of Newburgh.
(Oldcruvie Bank is at NO 244 195 on OS 6"map, Fife, 1st ed, 1855).
A Laing 1876.
No further information.
Visited by OS (R D) 18 May 1955.
(Location formerly cited as NO 244 195; amended to NO c. 24 19). About 1816 two logboats were found 'in the bed of the Tay, opposite Lindores Abbey' and in the area of Cruive or Oldcruvie Bank with is noted on a map of 1866. Both boats were subsequently cut up to serve as building-lintels.
These are probably the two logboats found 'in the Tay itself' that are mentioned in an account of 1881; the 'canoe excavated at Newburgh-on-Tay' that Shearer noted in 1907 is probably one of them. So also is the 'very well preserved' logboat that a newspaper article of 1848 notes as having been found about 30 years before.
The larger boat measured 28' (8.5m) in length and was 'quite entire'.
Perthshire Courier, 22 June 1848; A Laing 1876; Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, (1881-6), 30; Transactions of the Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society, (1906-7), 97: R J C Mowat 1996.
OS 6-inch map, Perthshire, 1st ed. (1866), sheet xcix.
