Crannogs in the Clyde: Erskine and Old Kilpatrick

Abstract

Accounts are provided of the examination of two adjacent crannogs in the Clyde at Erskine and Old Kilpatrick. The first is based on the planning of the surface remains, a more detailed examination of some of the timbers and an assessment of the limited finds recovered; the second on collating the scattered antiquarian records of an ‘excavation’ undertaken in 1906 and a detailed examination of the surviving finds. The two sites are contextualised within current understanding of the chronology, character and function of estuarine crannogs in the western lowlands of Scotland