CD-ROM of photographs supplementing the George Holleyman collection
CD-ROM of photographs donated by Linda Gowans to complete An Iodhlann`s collection of photographs and manuscripts created by George Holleyman when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Prints of same included in George Holleyman folder.
Inventory of the George Holleyman collection held at An Iodhlann 2013
Printed list of numbered items in the George Holleyman collection of artefacts, photographs, manuscripts and notebooks, held at An Iodhlann. Copy included at the start of the G Holleyman collection file folder. George Holleyman FSA was an archaeologist who was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. He carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century, along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
Booklet `The Wind that Shook the Barley` 1999
Booklet about Tiree`s role during WWII, the RAF personnel stationed here, new infrastructure, the effect on the lives of local people, the Home Guard, men off to fight, air accidents and shipwrecks. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting “A` Maistreadh” in Gaelic
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting in Gaelic entitled “A`Maistreadh” (At the churning) showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman during 1941-43.
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Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh”
Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh” (at the churning), showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman in 1941-43.
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project, Report No. 3, January 2006.
Report on chipped stone from various sites on Tiree, a preliminary evaluation of the pottery found on Tiree, a catalogue of the metal objects in the Holleyman collection and the results of geophysical surveys of the stone circles at Hough, the Kirkapol chapels and archaeological sites in the Balephuil area.
Report No. 3 of the Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project conducted by the School of Human & Environmental Studies, University of Reading.
A summary of the activities and results of the second year of the IHAP including a survey on Tiree and Gunna, reconnaisance on Coll and North West Mull, an evaluation of the pottery and metal objects in the Holleyman collection from Tiree and of chipped stone from Oronsay.
Copied newspaper cutting of an obituary for George Holleyman (1910-2004), an archaeologist who amassed a wealth of historical information and artefacts while he was stationed on Tiree during WWII.
Audio cassette recording of George Holleyman talking to Dr Euan Mackie in An Iodhlann on 26/7/2000.
George Holleyman talks to Dr Euan Mackie of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow in July 2000 about the Stone Age flints, bronze objects and Iron Age pottery that he found in Balevullin and Balephuil while he was a service policeman on Tiree during 1941 to 1943. Also present are Ian Atkins of Balephuil and Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig.
Audio cassette recording of a talk `The Archaeology of Tiree` by Professor Steven Mithen in An Talla, Crossapol on 26/8/2004.
Talk ‘The Archaeology of Tiree’ given by Professor Steven Mithen of Reading University in An Talla in August 2004 and introduced by Dr John Holliday. Prof. Mithen talks about the earliest settlers in the Southern Hebrides around 6000BC, their probable lifestyle and tools, the traces they’ve left such as flints, bone tools, middens and charcoal deposits, the survey work the Reading team have been conducting on Tiree including ground penetrating radar and peat cores and the work they hope to do on Tiree in the future.
