Digital copy of Description of Tiree from a book published in 1808. Consists of a handwritten transcription from a book, and includes mentions of: Island House, crops, livestock, caves at Ceanm-harra [Kenavara], the Reef, duns [brochs], St Patrick’s Chapel, the discovery of coins in ‘small earthen vessels’, and the discovery of human and horse skeletons in Cornaigbeg. The document also mentions that the ancient name of Tiree was Riog-Hachd-bar-Fathuim, ‘the Kingdom whose summits are lower than the waves’.
Research article by Rena Maguire, 2019, about reconstructing a Bronze Age horse’s bridal made using a deer antler tine for a bit cheek piece. A similar antler tine, also thought to be a bit cheek piece, was found amongst items excavated from Dun Mor Vaul by Euan Mackie in 1962-1964. Entry includes extracts from associated papers.
Black & white photograph of a plan of a section of elevation of the Broch of Mousa, Shetland, and a broch in Glenelg, from an unidentified publication. Re-photographed by archaeologist George Holleyman FSA when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Scanned from one of his glass lantern slides now held at An Iodhlann (see 2017.54.4).
Black & white photograph of the ground plan of the Broch of Mousa, Shetland, from an unidentified publication. Re-photographed by archaeologist George Holleyman FSA when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Scanned from one of his glass lantern slides now held at An Iodhlann (see 2017.54.4).
Photocopy of an academic paper ‘Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age’ by Euan W. MacKie published in the journal Antiquity XXXIV, 1965. Includes section on Dùn Mor Vaul.
Colour photograph of information cards at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, about Dun Mor broch at Vaul, its excavation in 1962-4, and the artefacts found there and held at the Hunterian. See also K112-K117.
Colour photograph of glass and pottey artefacts excavated from Dun Mor broch at Vaul in 1962-4, and held at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. See also K112-K117.
Colour photograph of worked bone, metal and stone artefacts excavated from Dun Mor broch at Vaul in 1962-4, and held at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. See also K112-K117.
