Photograph of the old smithy at Caoles, ca 1980
Colour photograph of the ruined smiddie buildling at Caoles around 1980. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.54.1
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2014.54.2
Photograph of the interior of the old smithy at Caoles, ca 1980
Colour photograph of bellows, clamp, anvil and metal artefacts in the ruins of the blacksmiths at Caoles around 1980. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.54.3
Photograph of blacksmith`s bellows at Caoles ca 1980
Colour photograph of green bellows in the old smiddie at Caoles around 1980. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.2.1
Iron hoof pick
Smiddie-made iron pick for removing dirt and stones from horses` feet. From Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
2013.181.6
Two smithing grips
Two long-handled grips or tongs used by smiddies/blacksmiths, one with a straight flat grip, the other with a curved pincing grip.
2013.71.1
Collection of metal tools from a ruin in the 1970s
Assemblage of eight black-painted tools, length of straw rope and a pair of glasses, collected by Ailean Boyd from ruins in the 1970s: forge tongs, head of an open clay spade used for heavy soils of bottoms of ditches, pony shoe, turf edger head, hammer wrench, ash scraper, fork head, unknown head.
2012.65.1
Fragments of pottery and other material from Balevullin machair
Around 160 small fragments of clay pottery, cast iron cooking pot (17th-19th century), blacksmithing slag and hearth, and chips off beach cobbles, collected from a midden on Balevullin machair by Dr John Holliday between June 2011 and January 2012. Includes an analysis of the material by Dr Fraser Hunter (original copy filed as 2012.65.2).
2012.65.2
Analysis of pottery fragments and other material from Balevullin, 2012
Printed analysis of fragments of Iron-age pottery, blacksmithing slag, cast iron cooking pot and beach cobbles from a midden on Balevullin machair (2012.65.1), by Dr Fraser Hunter of the National Museum of Scotland in 2012.
2008.38.5
Colour photograph of old forge tools from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
Old tools used to shape metal in the smiddie at Tufthill Farm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2008.34.1
Black and white photograph of Donald and Mary Flora MacKinnon and their family in Tiree in 1925.
The MacKinnon family of Balephuil in 1925, two years before emigrating to New Zealand. L-R: Dolina, Mary, Annie, blacksmith Donald MacKinnon originally from Balinoe, Hugh, Donald`s wife Mary Flora Campbell, Sarah, unknown woman.
