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  • Cordoned urn (reconstructed)

    ‘One large reconstructed cordoned urn, with a sheep jawbone with teeth in situ, and another large bone fragment accompanying it. Urn has a flat to inward bevelled rim. An unevenly applied cordon around 120mm down from the rim. Sooting from the middle to the rim. Mann Collection.’
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  • Stone circles, Hough

    Standing stone at Hough photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2000.

    See PhD by Darko Maricevic. There may be a third stone circle to the east.
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  • Standing stone, Barrapol

    One of three probable prehistoric standing stones on Tiree (but see Gott below). There are a number of other standing stones, but these are believed to be modern.
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  • Rock art panel, Tur MhicChaluim

    A panel discovered in 2023 by Fraser Hunter and Tanja Romankiewicz 30 m north of Tur MhicChaluim (MacCallum’s cairn)
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  • Rock art panel, Cnoc Chailein, Mannal

    A panel in Mannal discovered by John Holliday
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  • Standing stone, Balinoe

    One of three probable prehistoric standing stones on Tiree (but see Gott below). There are a number of other standing stones, but these are believed to be modern.

    Standing stone at Balinoe known as A’ Charragh Bhiorach, the sharp pillar, or Spitheag an Fhoimheir, chip of the giant, photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2000.

    Canmore entry:
    Canmore ID 21463. ‘Standing Stone, Balinoe: This massive stone is situated near the S edge of an arable field 760 m WSW of the former manse of Heylipoll. It measures 1.9m by 1.1m at the base with the longer axis aligned approximately N and S, and stands to a height of 3.6m. The N side of the stone has a pronounced shoulder at a height of 1.7m above ground- level, beyond which it rises to a pointed top. Mann (L M Mann 1922) records that in 1921 ‘on the eastern face were noted eighteen cups, one partly ringed, and a few much weathered on each of the other sides’. At the time of his visit, he observed that the surface of the E face that bore the markings was about to flake off, and no artificial markings are no visible (nor were any noted by Morris in 1967 {R W B Morris 1969}). It should be noted, however, that a considerable number of shallow irregular cavities of natural origin are to be found in many places all over the surface of the stone, including the E face; hence it is possible that some, if not all, of the markings recorded by Mann (L M Mann 1922) as artificial were in fact the result of weathering.

    L M Mann 1922; R W B Morris 1969; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973.

    A standing stone as described. It bears no cup marks.

    Visited by OS (R D) 27 June 1972.’

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  • Standing stone, Caolas

    Standing stone at Caolas photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2000. One of three probable prehistoric standing stones on Tiree (but see Gott below). There are a number of other standing stones, but these are believed to be modern.
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  • Bronze Age sword from Tiree (exhibited 1883): correspondence

    Email correspondence regarding a Bronze Age sword from Tiree

    Printed copy of email correspondence between Trevor Cowie, John Holliday and Darko Maricevic during Feb. 2008 regarding the whereabouts of a Bronze Age sword discovered on Tiree and exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaires of Scotland in 1883.
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  • Notes about rock art: Wombell

    Handwritten notes, email and printed internet pages about Bronze Age cup markings in rocks. Provided by John Wombell after a visit to West Hynish in 2013, where he found some worked flints (see 2013.94.1).
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