Hardback book ‘Manual of Seamanship, Vol. II’, 1909, found during a barn clear-out in Caoles in 2015. Manual covering aspects of seamanship. (see 1997.223.1 for Vol. I)
2015.23.1
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2015.22.2
Shoebox of about 80 shards of pottery and bone, excavated by FG Hay from the small dun at the east end of Balephetrish Bay (probably An Dùn), in 1966. One pottery piece is patterned and another may be tusk.
2015.22.1
Bound undergraduate dissertation ‘A view of Tiree in 1965’ by FG Hay, Geography Honours, University of Glasgow, 1967. Based on a visit to the island in June-July 1965. Topics include geology, land managment, population and demographics, weather, townships, crofting, infratructure, communications and amenities.
2015.21.1
Hardback book ‘Dr Elsie Inglis’, ca. 1920, a biography written by Lady Frances Balfour, the sister of the Duke of Argyll, and owned by Katie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Inscribed inside is “To John, in memory of Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol”. Dr Inglis herself (1864-1917) did not have any links to Tiree. Chapters of the book include her ancestry, studies, London and Dublin, politics, faith, war and Scottish women, Serbia and Russia, covering the period 1740-1917. She died from a severe illness shortly after arriving back in Britain.
2015.20.1
Brass artillery shell casing dated 1941 found in 2014 amongst the belongings of the late Les Crawte in ‘Windrush’, Milton, his last home on Tiree. Engraved on the bottom: LOT1 EOC 1941 [symbols x3] 12Pr 12CW[remainder obscured].
2015.19.5
Softback book ‘Strange Things’ by John L Campbell and Trevor H Hall, 2006. The story of Father Allan McDonald, Ada Goodrich Freer and the Society for Psychical Research’s enquiry into Highland second sight.
2015.19.4
Softback book ‘Flowers in the Snow’ by Gwyneth Hoyle, 2001. A biography of the plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchinson who travelled the northern latitudes of the world in the first half of the 1900s in search of plants. Her travels through Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska were by various and interesting means. Includes Tiree.
2015.19.3
Hardback book ‘Scottish Lighthouses’ by R W Munro, 1979. History of Scottish lighthouses from 1636 to the 1970s, including Skerryvore Lighthouse.
2015.19.2
Softback book ‘The Old and The New Highlands and Hebrides’ by J Morrison Davidson, 1912. From the days of the Great Clearances to the Pentland Act,1809-1863.
2015.19.1
Three pieces of worked serpentine stone and/or green marble made by Hugh MacLean, Barrapol. One may have been intended as a paperweight, while the other two may have been intended as pendants.
