Errol
Logboat
Site Name Errol
Classification Logboat
Alternative Name(s) River Tay; Errol Park; Habbiebank; Errol 1
Canmore ID 30480
Site Number NO22SE 5
NGR NO 26 22
NGR Description NO c. 26 22
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30480
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Errol
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO22SE 5 c. 26 22
See also NO12SW 210.
A dugout canoe was found in the River Tay, very near the site of another similar canoe (NO22SE 4) but some six years previously, ie c.1889. It was not in such good preservation as the latter.
A Hutcheson 1897
Not in Dundee Museum. No further information.
Visited by OS (RDL) 12 June 1964.
About 1869 a logboat was found in the estuarine sandbank known as the Habbiebank in the inner estuary of the River Tay about 230 yards (250m) from the Perthshire shore and 'near to' the findspot of NO22SE 4. No detailed record was made at the time, and there are apparently no surviving remains of the boat which was 'not in such good preservation' as that discovered subsequently.
A Hutcheson 1897; R J C Mowat 1996.
