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  • Letter about bronze pins (1905)

    Photocopied letter to the Duke of Argyll dated 20/8/1905 from his brother (Bundle 924).

    Letter to the Duke of Argyll dated 20/8/1905 from his brother about the find of two bronze pins found in the sand dunes at Balevullin, with photocopied rubbing.
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  • Bronze rivet

    art of a Medieval bronze rivet, possibly for boat building, from a collection of around 200 bronze objects found by amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA at Balevullin in 1941-43, when he served at RAF Tiree during WWII. Identified by Dr Colleen Batey, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Glasgow University and David Caldwell, retired Keeper of Medieval Department at the National Museum of Scotland during a visit to An Iodhlann on 29th April 2016.
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  • Two ring links

    ‘Small bronze ring link, from Coll, Inner Hebrides. Early Medieval to Medieval’ ‘Small bronze ring link with jewel missing, from Coll, Inner Hebrides. Early Medieval to Medieval’
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  • Four bronze needles

    ‘Four bronze needles, from Coll, Inner Hebrides. Early Medieval to Medieval’
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  • Hinges

    ‘Two part metal hinge, from Coll, Inner Hebrides. Early Medieval to Medieval’ ‘Three bronze hinges, with two looped ones, from Coll, Inner Hebrides. Early Medieval to Medieval’
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  • Two communion tokens

    ‘Square communion token. Obverse: inscription: COLL.’ ‘Oblong communion token. Coll (possibly). Obverse: inscription: COLL. Reverse: inscription: D’
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  • Annular brooch with figures of animals and black letter inscription

    ‘An annular brooch with figures of animals and black letter inscription found in the sand at Barrapol in 1884 ‘
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  • Pins

    ‘Metal pins found in the ‘sand dunes of Tiree’, dated from Early to post-Medieval (registration no. 36)’
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  • Pins and needles and two finger rings

    ‘Pins and needles of bronze and mixed metal, plus two copper alloy finger rings fond in Balevullin and Cornaig. Possibly Iron Age to post Medieval in date (registration no. 35)’
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  • Four bronze pins from Balevullin, now in Inveraray Castle

    Four bronze pins (Early Medieval) found by Lord Lorne (John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll) near Balevullin, Tiree in 1884. Canmore ID 21435 describes these as: one cross-headed, one ring-and-dot, one globe, one putter. (Inveraray Castle, display no. 23).

    “As found upon Sandhills of Tiree … mention must be made here of two remarkable bronze specimens obtained in 1897 by Lord Archibald Campbell, who kindly gave the writer an opportunity of examining them. One of these is a most peculiar pin about three inches in length with a semi-spherical flutes head, curved on the top but flat below. The special feature, however, is that the pin itself is of hybrid form, being round in the upper half and square in the lower, coming there to a sharp point, the whole thoroughly polished.” Beveridge, E. (1903) Coll and Tiree, p. 129.
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