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.
Book `Seal-folk and ocean paddlers` by John M. MacAulay.
Investigation of the mystery of seal-folk and ocean paddlers in kayaks around the islands of Scotland. A mix of Hebridean and Norse tradition, mythology, and historical fact.
Photocopied extract from `Orkneyinga Saga` edited by Joseph Anderson.
Preface (pp 1, 4-7), map of `Skotland`, Introduction: King Magnus ravages the Hebrides including Tiree in 1097 (pp34-35), Chapter 60: How Swein, Asleif`s son, came to stay with Holdbodi in Tiree (1page).
Norse colonial settlement in The Inner Hebridean isalnds of Mull, Coll, Tiree and Lismore, with bibliography and comments on the thesis by Reg Knapman, Kenovay.