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Re: old book

Postby Ronnie » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:53 pm

McPhun writes of a canoe found in London Street, which was the portion of what is now London Road immediately EAST of the cross. The fancy map and neon whatsit both relate to Tontine Lane, off Trongate, which is immediately WEST of the cross. So the dates don't conflict - they refer two two different finds.

PS toomse, would your colleague be selling his 1833 McPhun?
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Re: old book

Postby cumbo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:42 pm

Back to the lights I think the canoe lights went up for the first Radience light festival
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Re: old book

Postby Ronnie » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:14 pm

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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:01 pm

cheers Ronnie
excellent information unearthed

I initially thought the dates were conflicting because a canoe would be such a rare find

could never have imagined 16 of them !
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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:05 pm

discovered this while investigating the unlikelihood of a tunnel network below the Old College Bar extending to GRI
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It’s too faint to make out other than 16th Century *********** found
Wonder if it relates to yet another canoe

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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:46 pm

just looking at this again - think I must have canoes on the brain

looks more like coins although it seems strange to record this unless it was quite a large find
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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:56 pm

mystery solved

ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_037/37_367_369.pdf
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Re: old book

Postby HollowHorn » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:39 pm

The labourers who made the discovery lost no time in disposing of the treasure that luck had sent them.

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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:24 pm

not a bad site this (sorry no direct link)
ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_084/84_137_169.pdf

lists old Roman coins found in Scotland

here’s an excerpt from page8 that lists coins found in the Glasgow area
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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:14 pm

passed here yesterday

must say I’m surprised a glass display in a city lane just off Trongate that’s been there for some time has not been trashed yet

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came across this glass business around the corner in New Wynd
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Re: old book

Postby toomse » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:27 pm

back on the subject of canoes

came across this in the Anstruther Fisheries Museum

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