Loch Glashan Crannog
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 225 objects from an excavation assemblage from Loch Glashan Crannog, which date from the 6th to 8th century. This collection consists mainly of conserved organic remains. It includes wooden dishes, troughs and bowls, pegs, trenails and barrel staves. It also contains a complete E-ware vessel, several fragments of a lidded crucible, a penannular brooch, an iron axehead, a segmented glass bead and several pounders, whetstones, slingstones and spindle whorls. It also includes numerous scraps of leather, including shoe parts and the fragments of a unique satchel, the earliest of its kind in the British Isles. In addition, the collection boasts a well preserved longboat and a paddle, which were found at the time of the discovery of the crannog. Loch Glashan is located in the county of Argyll in Scotland. Material from the crannog, a type of ancient fortified island-dwelling made of wood, clay, peat and rocks, was recovered in 1960 by Jack G Scott, then Keeper of Archaeology, Ethnography and History at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. This site was outstanding in its preservation of large numbers of wooden vessels, structural timbers and leather fragments and is without parallel in Scotland.
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