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Castle Loch, Lochmaben

Logboat (period Unassigned)
Castle Loch, Lochmaben
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Castle Loch is a shallow freshwater loch in Lochmaben where pink-footed geese and goosanders still gather, while the ruined Lochmaben Castle watches from the southern shore. A logboat once belonged to those waters, though no date or owner has survived to explain whose hands first cut it or whose journey it carried. The loch remains a Ramsar wetland of international importance, and that ancient vessel may have ferried people past the castle stones before the geese claimed the place.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Loch, Lochmaben as Logboat (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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Photo: Billy McCrorie · CC BY-SA 2.0