A Boy Found a Shipwreck on a Scottish Beach..... a 250-Year-Old Warship From the American Revolution [View all]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-boy-found-a-shipwreck-on-a-scottish-beach-it-turned-out-to-be-a-250-year-old-warship-from-the-american-revolution-180987061

"After a windy winter storm whipped against the Scottish island of Sanday in February 2024, a schoolboy stumbled upon several peculiar wooden beams emerging from the dunes of a local beach.

The beams were the ribs of an old wooden ship, though nobody knew the vessel’s identity. The wreckage quickly became a subject of fascination among the 500-person community on the island, which has a long history of commercial fishing and seafaring.

Sanday, the third-largest of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, was once known as Scotland’s “cradle of shipwrecks.” Roughly 270 have been discovered on its 20-square-mile coastline since the 1400s. Locals quickly jumped into action following the boy’s discovery, using tractors to excavate 12 tons of oak timbers buried under the sand.

Dig It!, an organization that supports Scottish archaeology, named the wreck as one of Scotland’s five biggest archaeological discoveries of 2024."

This video has some good pics... and, really, better info than the article.