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Glasgow, Tontine
Logboat (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, Tontine
Classification Logboat (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glasgow Cross; Tontine Hotel; Tontine Building; Clyde 2
Canmore ID 44277
Site Number NS56SE 19.01
NGR NS 5962 6491
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44277
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 19.01 5962 6491
(NS 5962 6491) Dug-out Canoe found AD 1781 (NAT)
OS 1:1250 map, (1969)
A dug-out oak canoe was found in 1781 when excavating the foundation of the Tontine, at Glasgow Cross. It was destroyed.
D Wilson 1963; J Buchanan 1818; J B 1856.
The Tontine building and therefore the find spot of the canoe was sited from photographs (Cowan 1951) to NS 5962 6491.
J Cowan 1951; Visited by OS (W M J) 6 September 1951.
In 1781 foundation work revealed a logboat on the N side of Glasgow Cross, about 410m NNE of the present river bank and in a substratum of laminated clay. The depth of the discovery is nowhere recorded, but the area is situated at an altitude of 32' (9.8m) OD in the upper river terraces.
The Tontine Hotel was built in about 1737-60 and stood next to the former tolbooth which was redesigned in 1814. What became the Tontine Building was acquired by the Tontine Society in 1781 and the logboat was presumably found during subsequent reconstruction works.
[J Buchanan] 1848; D Wilson 1851; R J C Mowat 1996; information from Mr G Stell.
