Collection of 36 flint lithics from a dune blow-out at Traigh nan Gilean, Kennavara (NL 94668 41595), including one larger marked piece (8 x 6.5 cm). Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Two flakes of worked quartzite from a dune blow-out at Traigh nan Gilean, Kennavara (NL 94668 41595). Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Four fragments of pottery from a dune blow-out at Traigh nan Gilean, Kennavara (NL 94668 41595), including one larger marked piece (8 x 6.5 cm). Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Collection of 21 small flint flakes from the east side of Ceann a’ Mhara (094085 740613). Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Flint core from the east side of Ceann a’ Mhara (093815 740138). Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Large piece of pottery from Dùn nan Nighean midden chute, Balephuil. Collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Piece of patterned vaul-ware pottery from the inner west wall of Dùn Mòr Vaul (NM 04225 49270), collected by John Wombell during a North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) field trip in June 2017.
Small round wall-clock from either Skerryvore Lighthouse or the Scarinish Light, which came into the possession of Donald Brown’s uncle in Vaul.
Chanter belonging to Captain Lachlan MacPhail, Tiree and Glasgow (1889-1961), who was a great piper and writer of Gaelic poems and bagpipe tunes, and who had a pipe tune named after him. The chanter was presented to An Iodhlann by his eldest grandson on behalf of Lachlan’s three daughters Isabel, Cath and Margaret, who spent the holidays in Tiree in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
Iron cruisgean from Sliabh Cottage, Cornaigbeg.
An iron ‘crusie’ lamp that was used to burn fish oil and once belonged to Mrs Mary Campbell, grandmother of the donor. Notes accompanying the cruisgean tell that it came into the possession of the donor in 1996 and was initially offered to the Thatched House Museum in Sandaig. There it was photographed and returned to the donor with some notes suggesting that it was “an early 18th century iron hanging cruise lamp presented by the late Viscountess Gort”, and that “a cruse is a clay container which could be transformed into a lamp by being filled with oil and equipped with a simple wick – a rag would suffice, but a rush was more efficient and minimised the smoke.”
