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Storegga tsunami
It has been estimated that the Storegga tsunami (between 8120 and 8175 BP) produced waves of +2 m on Tiree. (Woodroffe, S. A. et al. (2023) On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland, Journal Quaternary Science, 38, pp. 1219-1232).
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‘First Footsteps’ by Mithen: book
Booklet “First Footsteps – searching for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Hebrides” summarising the archaeological findings of Prof. Steven Mithen and colleagues from the University of Reading during their surveys of Tiree, Coll, Gunna, Mull, Colonsay & Oronsay and Islay during 2006. Includes a letter from Steven Mithen to Dr John Holliday (02/04/08) and a copy of a research note about his work at Fiskary Bay, Coll, published in Scottish Archarological News.Type: BookIsland: Tiree and Coll -
‘The impact of the abrupt 8.2 ka cold event on the Mesolithic population of western Scotland’: Wicks and Mithen
Scientific paper ‘The impact of the abrupt 8.2 ka cold event on the Mesolithic population of western Scotland: a Bayesian chronoligcal analysis using ‘activity events’ as a population proxy’. Published in the Journal of Archaeologial Science, 2014, by Karen Wicks and Steven Mithen, University of Reading.Type: PaperIsland: Tiree and Coll -
Date of peat sample from Balephetrish beach
Peat washed up on Balephetrish beach dated to 9474 years +/- 32 years (Jim Hill, Coll, pers. comm. 2017). The sample was tested through Glasgow University. -
Two possible Larne picks
‘Larne picks (?), 2; objects not yet seen: R.Livens’ identification in 1951′ -
Two ‘Inner Hebrides Mesolithic Project’ reports, 2004
IHMP run by Professor Steve Mithen, Reading University:
1. Report on the ‘Inner Hebrides Mesolithic Project 2004’
2. Report on the ‘Tiree Evaluation Survey’ by Steven Mithen, Tim Astin, Erika Guttmann, Anne Pirie, Sam Smith and Karen Wicks.
Report on the Tiree evaluation survey conducted by Professor Steven Mithen and others from the School of Human and Environmental Sciences, Reading University in the summer of 2004.
Paper copies of both held in An Iodhlann
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Bronze Age pottery at ‘Giant’s Grave’, Kirkapol
Report by Ann MacSween on the fragments of hand-made pottery found during excavation of Cnoc an Fhiommheir / Giant’s Grave at Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, in 2017.
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‘The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Scotland: a review and new evidence from Tiree’
Mithen, S. et al. (2007) ‘The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Scotland: a review and new evidence from Tiree’. In A. Whittle, and V. Cummings (eds), Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe: pp. 511-541. Oxford: British Academy. -
Bevelled pebble Balevullin
Bishop, A (1914) An Oransay Shell-mound—A Scottish Pre-Neolithic Site. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 48, pp. 52–108. Contains the passage: ‘Noted “limpet gouge found by the writer on the sands at Balevullin in the summer of 1911”
Note from archaeologist and coarse stone tool expert Anne Clarke: ‘We use the term “bevelled pebble” now. These stones are narrow, elongated pebbles that have been bevelled on the end by grinding and pecking.’ See Clarke, A. et al. (2012) ‘The Tie that Binds: an incised Mesolithic bevelled pebble from Camas Daraich, Skye’, Mesolithic Miscellany, 22(1), pp. 3–9
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Fiskary Bay excavation 2007/8
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Fiskary Bay
Excavation
Steven Mithen and Karen Wicks – University of Reading
NM 2116 5494 The site was discovered as a scatter of chipped stone artefacts in inter-tidal mud. Test pitting and a test trench in 2007 showed that the artefacts and associated wood charcoal and fish bone were from raised beach and underlying sand deposits. A total of 1445 chipped stone artefacts have now been recovered, all of which fall into the narrow blade tradition of the Scottish Mesolithic. Of the fish bones excavated in 2007, 164 were identifiable and include wrasse, haddock, flat fish and saithe. Excavation continued 9–17 September 2008, in the 7 x 4m trench opened in 2007.
This work led to the recovery of further chipped stone artefacts, fish bone and wood charcoal, all presumed to be of Mesolithic date. No features have so far been identified.
Archive: Mull Museum, Tobermory (intended)
Funder: University of Reading (Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 2008, p.36)
See also Mithen, S. J., Wicks, K. and Hill, J., (2007) ‘Fiskary Bay: A Mesolithic fishing camp on Coll.’ Scottish Archaeology News, 55, pp. 14–15.
Photograph shows local archaeologist Jim Hill in 2016 standing beside the old trench