Hardback book `Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology` edited by Steven Mithen.
Project development, palaeoenvironmental studies and archaeological fieldwork on Islay.
2003.177.14
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1999.216.1
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLean of Barrapol talking to Maggie Campbell in October 1999.
Hugh MacLean of Barrapol talks to Maggie Campbell in October 1999 about his boyhood and schooling at Sgoil na Mòintich, his work on the farm, a spell in the Merchant Navy and 40 years as clerk to Tain Committee, old burial places, old farming methods using horses, harvesting, changes in the weather, planting potatoes, Tiree-made shoes, storms and tornadoes, New Year festivities, whisky, the Glassary and Curtis-Stanford. Tha Iain Aonghais a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an Dàmhair 1999 mu na daoine agus àiteachan ann agus mun cuairt Cill Moluaig, feum crotail airson aodach a dhath gu dearg, diofrach thobhtaichean mun cuairt Loch Bhasapol far am b’ àbhaist bradan agus bric a bhi, mac fear-uasal Dhòmhnall ’IcIllEathain a bha na fhear-brathaidh airson an Ruis, mar a fhuair ‘An Green’ ainm, na cathaidhean gainmhaiche a b’ àbhaist a bhi ann, uisge air a tharraing a tobraichean, ag obair air na croitean le eich, a’ cur coirce, neipean agus buntàta, a’ toirt sìol don mhuilinn ann an Còrnaig agus cion nan daoine far an robh iad uaireigin gu math lìonmhor.
2001.146.4
Newsletter of Tiree Heritage Society, No.2, August 2001.
Newsletter of Tiree heritage Society with news about the Tiree Chapels Project, the children`s book `Nud`s Notebook`, the pilgrimage route and fund-raising.
2003.161.6
Black and white photograph of an unknown woman on the Ringing Stone from a small album from Silversands.
`Clach a` Choire` (the Ringing Stone) from a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Idle Days` probably dating from the 1920s or early 1930s.
1997.246.1
Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.
Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
1997.243.1
Three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’
Sound clip in English of Hector MacPhail telling three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’.
Hector MacPhail of Ruaig gave a talk at Vaul Golf Club in November 1996, during which he told three humorous anecdotes about a fisherman from Balevullin nicknamed ‘the Goilear’.
2003.130.6
Booklet `Tiree Pilgrimage Route`.
Illustrated colour guide to a 30 mile walk around Tiree linking many places of Christian and pre-Christian significance and introducing visitors to the island`s rich natural heritage abundant in bird and plant life.
2003.130.8
Brochure `Tiree: A wildlife and heritage guide`.
Colour brochure illustrating the wildlife and heritage of Tiree.
2000.53.1
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.
1999.295.1
Hardback book `The Souterrains of Southern Pictland` by F. T. Wainwright.
Excavation reports of two souterrains at Ardestie and Carlungie in Angus and a summary of what is known about about all recorded souterrains between the Dee and the Forth.