Book `Coll & Tiree` by Erskine Beveridge, 1903 edition
1903 edition of the book `Coll & Tiree – their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles` by Erskine Beveridge, with photographs and maps. Book no. 82 of 300 impressions. Written inside the front cover: Presented to “Lachlan Grant, Vallay”.
Report on the archaeological evaluation of Mesolithic sites on Islay, 2011
Booklet reporting on the findings of archaelogical investigations of Storakaig and Rubha Port an t-Seilich on Islay by the East Islay Mesolithic Project, lead by Professor Steven Mithen from the University of Reading during 2009-2011.
Photograph of Lachie & Flora MacLean at a Bronze Age burial chamber, Kenavara, ca. 1998
Colour photograph of Lachie & Flora MacLean, Druimfraoich, at ‘Naimh Chaluim Chèaird / the cave of Calum the tinker’ on the Balephuil side of Kenavara around 1995-2000. Thought to be a Neolithic/Bronze Age burial chamber. It is named after a traveller who presumably sheltered there.
Letter from `Time Team`s Mick Aston to Dr John Holliday, 2010
Typed letter from Prof. Mick Aston (BBC`s `Time Team` archaeology series of TV programmes) to Dr John Holliday (Chair of An Iodhlann) thanking him for his letter and newsletter, and stating that he very much enjoyed his visit to Tiree in 2009 and that he hoped to return. Dated 21 Oct. 2010.
An account of churches on Tiree
Typed account of the history of churches on Tiree. Unknown author. May have been the notes for a public talk. Typed ca. 1960. Found by the Rev. Neil MacKinnon, Cumbernauld, during a clear out of his house in 2010.
Postcard of the broch at Vaul
Colour photo postcard of Dun Mor Bhalla, the broch at Vaul, taken in the 1970s-1980s by Sue Anderson. Original in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3.
Section of map showing location of the well at Dùn Mhòr broch, Vaul
Photocopied tracing of a section of map F19 – Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV.1, 1899 scale 1:2,5000, showing the location of the well `Tobar Duin Mhoir` at the broch at Vaul.
PhD Thesis “Later Prehistory of Tiree and Coll” by Darko Maricevic, 2009
Bound PhD Thesis “Later Prehistory of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland: Application of geophysics in archaeological investigarion of cultural landscapes” by Darko Maricevic.
Also available from the University of Reading Library
Book “The land below the waves”
Book “The land below the waves – Tiree past and present” by Donneil Kennedy of Tiree ancestry.
Fragment of pottery with a hole drilled through
Large fragment of pottery with a hole drilled through collected by Charles MacDonnell from Salum beach in 2009, and possible explanation of its purpose by Ian Hewitt of Bournemouth University: may have been used as a beehive, the holes being for ventilation. It may also have been a ceramic milk strainer used in cattle husbandry (see page 17 of GW Davis 2011).
