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.
Four Iron Age pottery shards found on the surface of a sand dune in Balephuil towards Ceann a` Bharra on 9/4/2003 by Malcolm MacNeill of Glasgow who assisted in the excavation of Dun Mor Bhalla in the 1960s.
Photograph of whalebone post sockets from the broch at Vaul.
Courtesy of Mr Nicholas Redman
These whale vertebrae, photographed by Nicholas Redman in 2003, are two of the four excavated from Dùn Mòr at Vaul by Dr. Euan Mackie in the early 1960s and now stored at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
The vertebrae were positioned two on each side of the rectangular hearth set in the centre of the floor of the broch. They had been perforated in the middle and doubtless used as post sockets. The best preserved vertebrae would have held an 8 cm thick post.
Situated too close to the hearth to be roof supports, the posts were probably used to support some sort of roasting spit or a frame for a cooking cauldron.
Three black and white photographs of whale vertebrae from Dun Mor, Vaul.
Whalebone post sockets excavated from Dun Mor, Vaul, by Dr Euan MacKie in the 1960s and now stored at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. (2 photographs not displayed in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
Photocopied photographs of a brooch found in a Viking burial site near Cornaigbeg.
This bronze ‘tortoise’ brooch was found with a bronze brooch-pin in a Viking burial site near Cornaigbeg some time before 1872, and was donated to the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland. The exact location of the grave is no longer known.
Six Tiree craggans photographed by George Holleyman between 1941 and 1943, and published in the paper ‘Tiree Craggans’, by G. A. Holleyman, in Antiquity 21, December 1947, pp 205-211. On the original slide, the craggans are captioned individually: 1 from Sandaig, 2 from Balevullin, 3-6 made by Hugh MacNeil in 1942.
