diff --git a/src.ts/contract/contract.ts b/src.ts/contract/contract.ts
index f1ccd05cc7..0c6e9d6448 100644
--- a/src.ts/contract/contract.ts
+++ b/src.ts/contract/contract.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
 import {
     ContractEventPayload, ContractUnknownEventPayload,
     ContractTransactionResponse,
-    EventLog
+    EventLog, UndecodedEventLog
 } from "./wrappers.js";
 
 import type { EventFragment, FunctionFragment, InterfaceAbi, ParamType, Result } from "../abi/index.js";
@@ -892,10 +892,25 @@ export class BaseContract implements Addressable, EventEmitterable<ContractEvent
      *  @_ignore:
      */
     async queryTransaction(hash: string): Promise<Array<EventLog>> {
-        // Is this useful?
         throw new Error("@TODO");
     }
 
+    /*
+    // @TODO: this is a non-backwards compatible change, but will be added
+    //        in v7 and in a potential SmartContract class in an upcoming
+    //        v6 release
+    async getTransactionReceipt(hash: string): Promise<null | ContractTransactionReceipt> {
+        const provider = getProvider(this.runner);
+        assert(provider, "contract runner does not have a provider",
+            "UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION", { operation: "queryTransaction" });
+
+        const receipt = await provider.getTransactionReceipt(hash);
+        if (receipt == null) { return null; }
+
+        return new ContractTransactionReceipt(this.interface, provider, receipt);
+    }
+    */
+
     /**
      *  Provide historic access to event data for %%event%% in the range
      *  %%fromBlock%% (default: ``0``) to %%toBlock%% (default: ``"latest"``)
@@ -924,7 +939,9 @@ export class BaseContract implements Addressable, EventEmitterable<ContractEvent
             if (foundFragment) {
                 try {
                     return new EventLog(log, this.interface, foundFragment);
-                } catch (error) { }
+                } catch (error: any) {
+                    return new UndecodedEventLog(log, error);
+                }
             }
 
             return new Log(log, provider);
diff --git a/src.ts/contract/index.ts b/src.ts/contract/index.ts
index 9a6b09e9c2..c960f1715b 100644
--- a/src.ts/contract/index.ts
+++ b/src.ts/contract/index.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export {
 export {
     ContractEventPayload, ContractUnknownEventPayload,
     ContractTransactionReceipt, ContractTransactionResponse,
-    EventLog,
+    EventLog, UndecodedEventLog
 } from "./wrappers.js";
 
 export type {
diff --git a/src.ts/contract/wrappers.ts b/src.ts/contract/wrappers.ts
index b426bc2cb8..3c056e632f 100644
--- a/src.ts/contract/wrappers.ts
+++ b/src.ts/contract/wrappers.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,25 @@ export class EventLog extends Log {
     get eventSignature(): string { return this.fragment.format(); }
 }
 
+/**
+ *  An **EventLog** contains additional properties parsed from the [[Log]].
+ */
+export class UndecodedEventLog extends Log {
+
+    /**
+     *  The error encounted when trying to decode the log.
+     */
+    readonly error!: Error;
+
+    /**
+     * @_ignore:
+     */
+    constructor(log: Log, error: Error) {
+        super(log, log.provider);
+        defineProperties<UndecodedEventLog>(this, { error });
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  *  A **ContractTransactionReceipt** includes the parsed logs from a
  *  [[TransactionReceipt]].
@@ -78,7 +97,9 @@ export class ContractTransactionReceipt extends TransactionReceipt {
             if (fragment) {
                 try {
                     return new EventLog(log, this.#iface, fragment)
-                } catch (error) { }
+                } catch (error: any) {
+                    return new UndecodedEventLog(log, error);
+                }
             }
 
             return log;
diff --git a/src.ts/ethers.ts b/src.ts/ethers.ts
index cd148ce623..7f3786e80c 100644
--- a/src.ts/ethers.ts
+++ b/src.ts/ethers.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export {
 export {
     BaseContract, Contract,
     ContractFactory,
-    ContractEventPayload, ContractTransactionReceipt, ContractTransactionResponse, ContractUnknownEventPayload, EventLog,
+    ContractEventPayload, ContractTransactionReceipt, ContractTransactionResponse, ContractUnknownEventPayload, EventLog, UndecodedEventLog
 } from "./contract/index.js";
 
 export {