Loch Glashan
Findspot, Paddle (Possible)
Site Name Loch Glashan
Classification Findspot, Paddle (Possible)
Canmore ID 116889
Site Number NR99SW 23
NGR NR 920 934
NGR Description NR c. 920 934
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116889
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR99SW 23 c. 920 934
Loch Glashan, paddle or oar (possible). The 'possible wooden paddle or oar' that was found close to the Loch Glashan 1 logboat (NR99SW 11) on the E shore of the loch (and may have been associated with it) was not conserved, but at least part survives in the store of the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, where the storage label for accession number GAGM A6137b identifies 'Part of paddle (?) found near canoe at Loch Glashan'.
The piece of wood is light in both colour and weight, and measures 0.41m in length by up to 68mm in breadth and 15mm in thickness. It has suffered from flaking during drying-out, and has been snapped at the proximal end, where it has evidently tapered into a shaft or handle. The distal end tapers to a ridge in the longitudinal plane and the ventral surface is slightly concave in all three planes.
R J C Mowat, visited August 1989.
