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Stone found in Happy Valley
This stone was found by Aiden MacDonald. Identified as quartzite by Peter MacFarlane. This rock is only found on Tiree as a beach cobble, rounded by wave action. -
Elizabeth Gibb Collection
Evelyn Elizabeth Balfour Gibb (née Milne) (1914–2000) was the daughter of Lady Frances Balfour, herself the daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll. She married and lived in Sussex, but was a frequent visitor to the island, usually staying at The Lodge. She developed an interest in archaeology, and spent a lot of time in the 1970s and 80s roaming Tiree, particularly its Iron Age forts. She donated some material to the National Museum of Scotland, but this collection from 16 find spots was donated to An Iodhlann by her granddaughter Stephanie Clarke.
Dun, Caolas (which one is not described): 1983; 4 small sherds, 2 large pieces of slag.
Dun Mor Vaul: 13 thick sherds (2 rims, one of which is everted; 1 comb decoration), 1 possible lug.
Dunes between Brock and Ruaig Post Office: 11 small sherds.
Kirkapol: 1 sherd.
Dùn an t-Sìthein, Gott: 13 sherds (1 flat base).
Old Manse garden, Gott: 2 sherds.
Island House (possible location): hammer/smoothing stone (see photo).
Stream on boundary of Heylipol and Balinoe (NL 98686 42460): 9 sherds, 1 glazed pottery piece, 1 piece of slate, 1 of 3cm tapered nail, 1 hammer stone, whelk, limpet, scallop shells, animal bones and teeth, 4 bits of hard dark unidentified material.
Barradhu, Hynish: 1 piece of pumice, 2 small smoothing stones, 1 piece of slag, 1 limpet shell, 3 pieces of iron (possible cartspring).
Barradhu, Hynish (rock shelter): around 60 worked flints, 15 sherds (1 with comb decoration).
Dunes between Hynish Farm and Dùn nan Cleite: 1 worked flint (awl), 3 sherds, 1 3-cm iron cylinder with two notches (see photo).
Dùn na Cleite: 1972; 8 sherds (2 with everted rims and 1 with comb decoration), 1 worked flint, 3 animal teeth.
Dùn Hiader: 1972. 5 sherds (1 decorated, 1 with an indented, raised cordon), 1 smoothing stone, 1 hammerstone, 1 piece of iron 2 cm long, 1 piece of burnt bone.
Balephuil: 2 worked flints, 14 thick sherds, 1 small bone awl, 1 small pointed bone tool. ‘Sand dunes below Balephuil – just over the fence, not in the field you go down to the shore from, but the next along to the NW. 1982 May. Dr Brown knew this was an old settlement. Jean has a finger bone!’
Balephetrish: 1 hammerstone.
Sorisdale, Coll: 1 large fine sherd, 6 small sherds, 3 worked flints, 12 cowrie shells, 3 large pieces of bloom.
Included was a note [about possible rock art]: ‘I’m sure I found some [cup marks] on the non-seaward side of Dun Moor Vaul above the well/spring. I have a photograph somewhere. Quite small depressions in a circle about 12 of them. [?] “votive” holes in rock in Crete. 1994. EG’ -
Stone oil lamp
This carved stone was handed in to An Iodhlann in 2024 by Donald Brown, Vaul. Its find spot is unknown. It has been identified by Ann Clarke as probably an oil lamp dating from the Iron Age or later with a carved thumb grip. A similar object from Pool on Sanday is also shown. -
Sherd from Kirkapol graveyard
Pottey shard found 4 foot down in Kirkapol graveyard, exterior surface orange-brown, interior surface brown. -
Midden material from Gunna
Sample of objects found in a prehistoric midden in Gunna.
Four small pottery shards, a vertebra from a small animal and a limpet shell taken from a prehistoric midden in Gunna. -
Sherds from Holleyman collection assembled by MacKie
The fragment consists of three adjoining pieces of the rim of a finely made Vaul ware vase, plain except for a single horizontal incised line apparently running right round the vessel. The sherds are orange-brown in colour and have a light grey core.
The vase would have stood about 180-200 mm high with a rim diameter of about 130-150 mm and was made by the First Iron Age, or perhaps the Late Bronze Age, inhabitants of Tiree.
The sherds were found in a sand-hill site at Balephuil in the early 1940s by George Holleyman, later a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, who was posted to RAF Tiree during World War II. -
Holleyman collection: evaluation by MacKie
Typed assessment of George Holleyman`s collections by Dr Euan MacKie. -
Bone, flints and sherds: found by John Bowler
1. Collection of bone flints and pottery shards found by John Bowler in Balephuil in June 2003.
Collection of bone flints and pottery shards found by John Bowler in Balephuil, O/S Ref: NL 94328 40950, in June 2003.
2. Bag with two pieces of flint and one small pottery shard found by Dr John Holliday in September 2004 on Balephuil machair where John Bowler made his original finds. -
Lunar observatories
Hardback book `Megalithic Lunar Observatories` by A. Thom.
Descriptions of 35 lunar and solar Megalithic sites in Britain from which accurate declinations can be obtained (see p. 67 for Tiree).