A pottery sherd
A sherd of Iron Age pottery found in an eroded bank at Brock.
2026.7.1
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2026.6.3
A Lucas battery filler. A distilled water bottle for topping up accumulator batteries.
Early household radio sets were powered by glass accumulator batteries. See 2014.31.1 These batteries were regularly taken to be charged at local shops, such as Calum “Calum Salum” MacLean’s shop in Salum, where they would be topped up with distilled water.
2026.6.2
A masthead navigation light, from Donald Brown, Vaul
2026.6.1
A box of 20 Kodak 35mm slides, including views of the sunken Loch Seaforth, taken by Donald Brown and his brother Tommy
2026.5.1
A magic lantern with 14 glass slides
A magic lantern – an early type of image projector
With 14 glass slides, including pictures, bible texts and hymns
These were widely used until the 1950s when superseded by 35mm slide projectors
A lantern (possibly this one) was used at the Baptist Sunday-schools and Temperance meetings in Tiree.
2026.3.10
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
A horse buckle from Lodge Farm
2026.4.4
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Head of five-tine Wolf Garten cultivator, post-1922.
2026.4.3
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Cast iron kettle holding 5½ pints from John Law Foundry, Glasgow, 1852–1910
2026.4.2
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Pipsqueak mini-stove with an integrated hearth made by Anglo-American Stove Company. Date 1870s–1900s. Designed for boats, caravans, railway carriages
This was probably used in a boat
2026.4.1
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
A 6ft (180cm) pit saw blade
Pit saws were used to cut planks from tree trunks, for house and boat building. The “pit” in Brock would have been a hollow in the sand dunes. The log was placed horizontally across the pit or frame and the saw was usually operated by two men: a top-man above and a pit-man guiding the saw from below. This may have been a one-man saw
With the absence of local sawmills the use of pit saws would have continued long into the 1800s and possibly even the 1900s