Extract from the `New Journal of Botany` about Coll`s flora and fauna, 2012
Photocopies extract from the New Journal of Botany about Coll`s flora and fauna, by Pearman, Preston and Bland.
2012.131.4
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2011.52.1
Print-out of the full text for `Lines Below the Waves`
Unbound print-out of the full text (no photos) for `Lines Below the Waves` – the history of fishing on Tiree, written by Dr John Holliday for the An Iodhlann summer exhibition in 2005.
2011.32.1
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.
2011.27.1
Book “Scotland as it was and as it is” by the 8th Duke of Argyll, 1887
Hardback history of Scotland “Scotland as it was and as it is” (second edition 1887) by the Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) with sections on Tyree. Handwritten on inside cover “William D MacLean 1986”.
2000.225.5
Paperback book `Atlas of Scottish History to 1707` edited by Peter G. B. Macneill and Hector L MacQueen.
Maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707.
1999.299.9
Paperback book `Orkneyinga Saga` translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards.
Transaltion of a medieval chronicle describing the conquest of the Northern Isles by the kings of Norway and the subsequent history of the Earls of Orkney.
2003.32.1
Whalebone post sockets from the broch at Vaul
Photograph of whalebone post sockets from the broch at Vaul.
Courtesy of Mr Nicholas Redman
These whale vertebrae, photographed by Nicholas Redman in 2003, are two of the four excavated from Dùn Mòr at Vaul by Dr. Euan Mackie in the early 1960s and now stored at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
The vertebrae were positioned two on each side of the rectangular hearth set in the centre of the floor of the broch. They had been perforated in the middle and doubtless used as post sockets. The best preserved vertebrae would have held an 8 cm thick post.
Situated too close to the hearth to be roof supports, the posts were probably used to support some sort of roasting spit or a frame for a cooking cauldron.
Three black and white photographs of whale vertebrae from Dun Mor, Vaul.
Whalebone post sockets excavated from Dun Mor, Vaul, by Dr Euan MacKie in the 1960s and now stored at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. (2 photographs not displayed in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2000.10.12
Book `A Highland Chapbook` by Isabel Cameron.
Folk literature of the Highlands, including chapters on Douglas Graham, Folk Words and sayings, (Gaelic and Scots) charms, omens, witches and warlocks, magic, shape shifting, the Brotherhood of the Horseman`s word, water kelpies and religion.
2000.10.16
Book `Eigg – the Story of an Island` by Camille Dressler.
The story of Eigg and its inhabitants from earliest times to the present day, using written accounts, oral history, legends, song, and photographs. Covers crofting, clearances, clan battles, famine and changing landscapes until the community buy-out in June 1997.
2000.10.17
Book ` Islay – Biography of an Island` by Margaret Storrie.
History of Islay from early times to 1990s including placenames, landscape, transport, the Lordship of the Isles, the Cawdor Campbells, the First Shawfield Campbell, whisky and shipwrecks. With genealogical tables for the Campbells of Shawfield and Islay, and the Margadale Morrisons of Islay.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.