Colour photograph of drying tangles during February to March 1999.
Drying tangles during February to March 1999.
1999.126.6
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1999.126.9
Colour photograph of the 1800 tangle store at Port Hanais.
The ruins of the 1800 tangle store at Port Hanais behind Ben Hough in 1999.
1999.126.7
Colour photograph of drying tangles on shingles in April 1999.
Drying tangles on shingles in April 1999.
1999.126.8
Colour photograph of drying tangles on rocks in April 1999.
Dying tangles on rocks in April 1999.
1999.126.10
Colour photograph of re-opened kelp pit in 1999.
Re-opened kelp pit for burning tangles in the spring of 1999.
2000.91.7
Fragment of an Iron Age vase
Photograph of a fragment of an Iron Age vase.
Courtesy of Mr George Holleyman
The fragment consists of three adjoining pieces of the rim of a finely made Vaul ware vase, plain except for a single horizontal incised line apparently running right round the vessel. The sherds are orange-brown in colour and have a light grey core.
The vase would have stood about 180-200 mm high with a rim diameter of about 130-150 mm and was made by the First Iron Age, or perhaps the Late Bronze Age, inhabitants of Tiree.
The sherds were found in a sand-hill site at Balephuil in the early 1940s by George Holleyman, later a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, who was posted to RAF Tiree during World War II.
2000.91.5
Tiree craggan
Photograph of a Tiree craggan.
Courtesy of Mr George Holleyman
George Holleyman, an archaeologist in the RAF police posted to Tiree during World War II, collected this small clay pot known as a craggan which he later donated to An Iodhlann.
Made by hand from local clay without the aid of a potter’s wheel, Tiree craggans were believed to have special curative properties, particularly in the case of tuberculosis of the lungs. The craggan was heated on the fire until very hot, removed with tongs and taken to the byre where it was filled with milk straight from the cow. This was heated again and administered to the invalid.
In a paper about Tiree craggans published in the journal ‘Antiquity’ in 1947, Holleyman wrote: ‘Each township had its potter who was always a woman…’ Flora MacNeill of Balevullin, who died aged eighty in the 1920s, was the last known craggan-maker on Tiree.
2003.166.6
Black and white of Tiree airport before 1988.
The interior of Tiree airport before the new terminus was built in 1988.
2003.165.1
Black and white photograph of the MacFadyen family of Baile Mhic `Eotha` around 1895.
The MacFadyen family of Baile Mhic `Eotha` around 1895. L-R: (back) Hugh; Effie, emigrated to Australia; Annabelle, mother of Lachie MacFarlane; John (Iain Fhortaidh); (front) Marion; John (Fortaidh); Flora mother of John Brown (Iain Thearlaich).
2003.167.1
Black and white photograph of Balemartine School in 1936.
Balemartine School in 1936. L-R: (back row) Iain MacFadyen, Balemartine; Murdoch Sinclair, Balephuil; John MacKay, Balephuil; Arthur Straker, Balinoe; Alexander MacKay, Balephuil; John MacFadyen, Barrapol; Duncanina MacFadyen, Barrapol; (2nd back row) Alexandrina MacNeill, Balinoe; Sarah MacKinnon, Balephuil; Morag MacKinnon, Balephuil; Euphemia MacNeill, Balinoe; Katie Ann Lamont, Mannal; Flora MacFadyen, Balemartine; Mary MacLean, Balemartine; Annabel MacFadyen, Barrapol; Effie MacDonald, Mannal; (2nd front row) Neil Sinclair, Balinoe; Donald MacFadyen, Balemartine; Alasdair Sinclair, Balinoe; John Brown, Balephuil sliabh; Walter MacKay, Balephuil; Ian Paterson, Crossapol; Callum MacLean, Balemartine; Alister MacDonald, Mannal; Allan MacFadyen, Balemartine; Archie MacKinnon, Balephuil; (front) Mairi Paterson, Crossapol; Catriona MacDonald, Mannal; Zena MacFadyen, Balemartine; Flora MacFadyen, Balemartine; Lachie MacArthur, Mannal; Cathie Sinclair, Balinoe; Jean Brown, Balephuil; Hugh MacFadyen, Balemartine.
