Academic paper ‘The creation of the crofting townships in Tiree’ by Eric Cregeen. Edited by Annie Tindley and published in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Courtesty of EUP Blog www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2015.0153
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Small brown paper packet encouraging children to “Save the toys – and send for a model farmyard”, from the 1930s. Found in ‘Four Winds’, Kilmoluaig.
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Five copies of ‘West Highland Notes and Queries’ by the Society of West Highland and Island Historical Research: May 1973 – inhabitants of Coll; May 1977 – Donald MacLeod of Talisker’s links with Coll; January 2014 – Ua Neill pedigrees, 1467 MacEwens, first MacLeans, Breacachadh; October 2014 – article about Coll MacColl; August 2015 – the setting of rents on Tiree 1662-1716.
Scientific paper ‘The impact of the abrupt 8.2 ka cold event on the Mesolithic population of western Scotland: a Bayesian chronoligcal analysis using ‘activity events’ as a population proxy’. Published in the Journal of Archaeologial Science, 2014, by Karen Wicks and Steven Mithen, University of Reading.
Scientific paper ‘A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north-west of Europe at Rubha Port an t-Seilish, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian-style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology’, by Steven Mithen (University of Reading) and colleagues, 2015. Includes letter to Dr Holliday from Prof. Mithen.
‘Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay – the discovery of ice age pioneers in Scotland’. Glossy report summarising the investigation of archaeological sites on Islay by Steven Mithen and Karen Wicks, University of Reading, 2013.
Photocopied report to Historic Scotland, 2003, ‘Airborne Remote Sensing and Ground Penetrating Radar survey, Coll and Tiree’ by Tom Dawson (University of St Andrews) and Sandy Winterbottom (University of Stirling) with Alistair Rennie and Jim Hansom. Testing the use of Airborne Remote Sensing to discover archaeological sites within mobile sand dune and machair areas.
Article in the Scots Magazine by Peter Myres recalling his maritime adventures around Tiree in 2009. Titled ‘Boat Daft on Tiree’ he writes about the ferries and puffers and a trip to Coll. Includes colour photographs of Travee from Balephuil, the ferry Claymore in 1962, hoisting a old Alvis car from the Claymore, the puffer Lascar, and Sheena Beck, Ruaig, with her children Drew, Robin and Margaret in 1962. Pages 408-412.
Academic paper on ‘A West Highland census of 1779: social and economic trends on the Argyll Estate’, by Eric Cregeen, published in the journal Northern Scotland 5, 2014.
Collection of 12 academic papers (1984-2013) about Vikings in the Hebrides including information on Norse names in Barra, the Hebrides and the N Atlantic area, Viking silver and gold artefacts, migration to the Inner Hebrides, Norse and Gaelic ancestry by DNA analysis, genetic evidence in Shetland and Orkney, colonization of the N. Atlantic, ethnicity, the Vikings in Gaelic oral tradition.
