British Geological Survey map of bedrock geology in the northern UK, 2007, scale 1:625000.
2022.16.2
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2022.6.1
Softback booklet ‘Prehistoric Rock Art in Scotland’, 2021. Produced and published by Scotland’s Rock Art Project (ScRAP) and Historic Environment Scotland to raise awareness and appreciation of the thousands of rock carvings made by early farming communities throughout Scotland over 4,000 years ago. Pages 27 and 43 include photographs of Dr John Holliday, Balephuil.
2021.35.5
Black & white postcard made up of five small images of Baugh and a cow, Tiree and of the castles and a rock on Ben Hough, Coll. Probably made by Mona MacDonald in around 1940 for her shop in Scarinish.
2021.31.1
Dark brown cobble with paler markings which resemble a map of Tiree. Found on the Salum shore by Donald Brown, Vaul, in 2020.
2021.7.3
Pages from the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, 1862, with an article titled ‘Alteration of Sea-level in the Island of Tiree’ by Alexander Scott, describing traditional rock fishing methods of ancient origin at Hynish Point, which indicate the drop in sea level since ancient times.
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2017.71.1
Lump of iron ore found in Barrapol at NL 958 432, by Dr John Holliday in 2017.
2017.8.6
Round grey basalt cobble from Happy Valley, Hynish.
2016.33.2
Bound booklet of transcribed excerpts regarding Tiree from the Autobiography and Memoirs of George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900).
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2015.54.2
Bag of 6 iron-rich rock fragments collected from Barrapol in 2015.
2015.44.1
Flat grey piece of sandstone glacial drift found in Barrapol in 2015. It was originally proposed as a limpet hammer, but Dr Fraser Hunter and Ann Clarke have said this was not the case.