Dugout canoe from White Loch
The dugout canoe from the White Loch was found around 1870 near the island of Inch Crindil, ( German Insel Crindil ) in the White Loch, ( German white lake ) or Loch of Inch. The lake is about 20 m above sea level at Inch, east of Stranraer in Wigtownshire , Scotland .
The circumstances of its discovery have not been detailed, it was found between the shore and the island where the Place of Inch, a medieval home of the Earls of Cassillis, was located.
In the Dumfries Museum lie the unlabeled remains of a wooden boat that corresponds to the discovery in the White Loch. The 3.94 m long remains include one end and the middle of a wooden boat made from knotted wooden planks. The other end has been lost. The end that has been preserved (probably the bow) has a rounded tip, a height of 14.0 cm and is rounded on the outside and inside. The midships section is parallel and about 0.5 m wide. The sides were probably slightly flared. One is partially preserved up to a height of 20.0 cm. The bottom is about 30 mm thick along the axis and between 20.0 and 10.0 mm thick near the sides.
See also
literature
- CE Dalrymple: Notes of the examination of a crannog in the Black Loch, anciently called "Loch Inch-Cryndil," Wigtownshire . Proceedings Society of Antiquaries Scotland, Vol. 9, 1870/73, p. 389
- Robert JC Mowat: The logboats of Scotland, with notes on related artefact types , Oxbow Monograph series, No. 68. Oxford. 1996, pp. 78-9
Web links
- Entry on White Loch Canmore Dugout Canoe, Historic Environment Scotland database