Round grey basalt cobble from Happy Valley, Hynish.
2017.8.6
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2016.33.2
Bound booklet of transcribed excerpts regarding Tiree from the Autobiography and Memoirs of George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900).
Click here to view Tiree excerpts
2015.54.2
Bag of 6 iron-rich rock fragments collected from Barrapol in 2015.
2015.44.1
Flat grey hand-sized stone that was probably fashioned and used as a limpet hammer. Piece of sandstone glacial drift found in Barrapol in 2015.
2014.118.1
Photograph of a piece of hexagonal basalt at Baugh, 2014
Colour photograph of a piece of basalt rock found on the beach at Baugh in 2014. Although the edges are now worn, it appears similar to the hexagonal rocks of Staffa (see V128), from where it may have originated.
2014.118.2
Photograph of hexagonal columns of rock at Staffa
Colour photograph of hexagonal columns of basalt rock at Staffa (see V127).
2014.107.12
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 427, 11/10/08
Local news: rock drilling at Ruaig; interview with Bernie Smith; access; council urges residents to measure their carbon footprint; council welcomes Marine Bill; An Talla news; Tiree Environmental Action and Recycling news; Tiree-Glasgow flight to be run by Flybe instead of Loganair.
2014.58.1
Piece of gneiss rock
Large piece of Lewisian gneiss rock from Balephuil, with intrusions of feldspar (grey crystals) and black mica.
2013.148.1
Photograph of a collection of polished stones from Tiree
Colour photograph of a collection of small stones from Tiree that have been worked and polished to make fruit sculptures and jewellery, and held in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Includes green marble, quartz, flint and red-green marble.
2013.94.2
Notes about Bronze Age `Rock Art` or ring and cup markings.
Handwritten notes, email and printed internet pages about Bronze Age cup markings in rocks. Provided by John Wombell after a visit to West Hynish in 2013, where he found some worked flints (see 2013.94.1).