Paperback book `The Stones of Iona` by John MacKenzie Semple.
The history of the carved stones of Iona giving their background particularly the Benedictine period and late.
1997.272.15
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1999.300.4
Paperback book `Life of St Columba` by Adomnan of Iona translated by Richard Sharpe.
The life of St Columba by Adomnan, 9th abbot of Iona.
1998.320.35
Paperback book `The Lords of the Isles` by Ronald Williams.
The story of the establishment of Dalriada by Fregus Mor in AD 500 to the forfeiture of the Lordship a thousand years later.
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)
2003.8.14
Hardback book `An Leanabh Mor` edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan.
Anthology of 100 Gaelic poems from the 6th to the 21st centuries illustrated by various artists.
1999.23.1
Photocopied webpages about MacKinnon clan history.
History of the Clan MacKinnon and information about the descendants of John and Ann MacKinnon of Crossapol, married in 1820..
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.
1997.228.1
Audio cassette recording of a 1997 Feis lecture about St Columba by Professor Donald Meek.
Professor Meek talks about the life of St Columba, Tiree`s monastic history and chapels. In English with a Gaelic introduction.