Wessex Archaeology’s image from project SAMPHIRE was featured as the front page of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy a new publication by the Scottish Strategic Archaeology Committee! The publication can be found here.
The image featured is of the Ardno wreck found in the intertidal zone near upper Loch Fyne. What remains is the keel to turn of the bilge of one side of the carvel built wooden vessel. Two previous images of the vessel were uncovered dating to the early 1900s showing the slow degradation of the vessel.
Investigation by Wessex Archaeology concluded that it was a broad beamed adaptation of the Zulu type vessel more suitable for use in sea lochs dated to around 1900 or later. Please see pages 52-54 of the 2015 SAMPHIRE report for further details on the wreck and the images!