Paperback book `The Isle of Taransay` by Bill Lawson.
The historical background to various items of interest connected with Taransay.
2000.122.4
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1998.321.1
Paperback book `Picts, Gaels and Scots` by Sally M. Foster.
Overview of the Picts and Gaels and the establishment of a single, unified kingdon known as Alba.
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)
2002.196.1
Paperback book `Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology`, Vol 9, No.1, Spring 1991.
Article by Prof. Donald Meek reviewing `An Introduction to Celtic Christianity` by James P MacKay.
1997.114.1
Photocopy of a list of Celtic saints.
A list of Celtic saints in chronological order from 440 AD – 720 AD.
2002.131.58
Paperback book `The Lord of the Isles` by Raymond Campbell Paterson.
The rise and fall of Clan Donald.
2002.126.1
Paperback book `Somerled and the emergence of Gaelic in Scotland` by John Marsden.
History of Somerled and a `proposal of his importance as the one personality who, more than any other, represents the first fully fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian province from which the Gaelic Scotland of today is directly descended.`
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.