Site Name: Clydebank, Erskine Ferry
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Crannog
Council: West Dunbartonshire
Parish: Old Kilpatrick
Map Sheet: NS47SE
Grid Reference: 246560, 672110
Canmore Number: 43277
Non-Statutory Register Code: R
WoSASPIN 7828
NS47SE 23 4656 7211.
(NS 4656 7211) Crannog (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1958)
Carbonised, unthreshed ears of barley and many other seeds were recovered from the crannog or pile structure at Erskine Ferry in 1906.
J G Callander 1911
NS 4656 7211. This crannog was excavated by Messrs Napier's Shipyards Ltd., and the plans of the excavation are at present in possession of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (negatives). The original drawings are in possession of the Clyde Trust (Robertson Street, Glasgow). The site of the crannog was taken from the latter.
Visited by OS (WMJ) 27 July 1951.
Callander, J G , 'Notice of the discovery of two clay vessels of clay on the Culbin Sands, the first containing wheat and the second from a kitchen-midden with a comparison of the Culbin Sands and the Glenluce Sands [...]', PSAS, Vol 45, 1910-11, p.158-81.(1911)
RCAHMS , The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Dumbarton District, Clydebank District, Bearsden and Milngavie District, Strathclyde Region. Edinburgh.(1978)
Hale, A G C , 'Old Kilpatrick (Old Kilpatrick parish), intertidal crannog',Discovery and Excavation, Scotland,1997, pp.83,1998(1997)
Ballin-Smith, B , 'Erskine Ferry Road (OLd Kilpatrick parish), ?crannog',Discovery and Excavation, Scotland,1998, pp.96,1999(1998)
Hale, A , 'Marine crannogs: previous work and recent surveys',PSAS,130,2000 2, pp.537-557,2002(2000)