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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’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’ -
Possible dun site: Dun Gott
Canmore entry: ‘A natural promontory. There is no evidence of antiquity here.’
Canmore entry: ‘A natural promontory. There is no evidence of antiquity here.’
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Dun site: Dun an t-Sithein
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 86.Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 86. -
Possible crannog site: Loch Riaghain, Gott
The Turnbull Report (1768) has this entry under Gott: ‘Feature 211. Moss situate on the North side of the lock, of a good quality, this is mostly wrought. There is an old fort in the middle of this moss.’
‘Gott | An islet, possibly to some extent artificial, on the northern side of Loch Kirkabol. There is an oral tradition of an attack on a house here (see section 18.c.4). Blaeu marked a ‘tree’ map symbol on the islet (see section 5.6.5). After partial drainage to expose peat banks in the eighteenth century, this became a peninsula jutting into the northern side of the loch (see Turnbull Map 1768). Water levels have now risen again. The loch was mapped in the late sixteenth century as Loch Kirkabol (Blaeu 1654), in 1768 Loch Kirkapoll (Turnbull Map) and in 1878 by the Ordnance Survey as Loch Riaghain (see Riaghain).’ (Holliday, J. (2021) Longships on the Sands, p. 511)
A band of Vikings came to stay in a house on an island in Loch Riaghain in Gott while the husband was away. They stayed for a week and then left, taking his wife and three children and setting fire to the house. This story was told to Donald MacDonald by his mother-in-law Isabella MacIntyre, Gott, while they were haymaking in 1951. In 1955 it was a very dry summer and the contractor Danny Gillespie was digging out G An Dig Mhòr ‘the big ditch’ that drains Loch Riaghain when he came across burnt looking pieces of wood (Donald MacDonald, Heanish, 9/1995 and 3/1997; Rosie and Barbara MacIntyre, Gott, 4/1997: oral sources). Donald MacIntyre, Gott, also found ‘charcoal’ west of the island on the northern side of the loch (Donald MacIntyre, pers. comm.). The 1654 Blaeu map shows this island as Ylen na Hyring in Loch Kirkabol, with a tree symbol drawn on it. This is the only such map symbol for Tiree and Coll, although they are quite common on the Blaeu map of Mull. This is likely to have been a crannog. (Holliday, J. (2021) Longships on the Sands, p. 691)
‘Pottery is said also to occur at an island rock in Loch Riaghain’ (Beveridge, 1903, p. 85)The Turnbull Report (1768) has this entry under Gott: ‘Feature 211. Moss situate on the North side of the lock, of a good quality, this is mostly wrought. There is an old fort in the middle of this moss.’
‘Gott | An islet, possibly to some extent artificial, on the northern side of Loch Kirkabol. There is an oral tradition of an attack on a house here (see section 18.c.4). Blaeu marked a ‘tree’ map symbol on the islet (see section 5.6.5). After partial drainage to expose peat banks in the eighteenth century, this became a peninsula jutting into the northern side of the loch (see Turnbull Map 1768). Water levels have now risen again. The loch was mapped in the late sixteenth century as Loch Kirkabol (Blaeu 1654), in 1768 Loch Kirkapoll (Turnbull Map) and in 1878 by the Ordnance Survey as Loch Riaghain (see Riaghain).’ (Holliday, J. (2021) Longships on the Sands, p. 511)
A band of Vikings came to stay in a house on an island in Loch Riaghain in Gott while the husband was away. They stayed for a week and then left, taking his wife and three children and setting fire to the house. This story was told to Donald MacDonald by his mother-in-law Isabella MacIntyre, Gott, while they were haymaking in 1951. In 1955 it was a very dry summer and the contractor Danny Gillespie was digging out G An Dig Mhòr ‘the big ditch’ that drains Loch Riaghain when he came across burnt looking pieces of wood (Donald MacDonald, Heanish, 9/1995 and 3/1997; Rosie and Barbara MacIntyre, Gott, 4/1997: oral sources). Donald MacIntyre, Gott, also found ‘charcoal’ west of the island on the northern side of the loch (Donald MacIntyre, pers. comm.). The 1654 Blaeu map shows this island as Ylen na Hyring in Loch Kirkabol, with a tree symbol drawn on it. This is the only such map symbol for Tiree and Coll, although they are quite common on the Blaeu map of Mull. This is likely to have been a crannog. (Holliday, J. (2021) Longships on the Sands, p. 691)
‘Pottery is said also to occur at an island rock in Loch Riaghain’ (Beveridge, 1903, p. 85) -
Earnal ACFA survey
Cnoc Earnal, Tiree
Measured survey
Elaine Black – Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists
NM 03153 47578 A group of four 19th-century houses,
enclosures and a corn kiln were surveyed at Cnoc Earnal
on 19 April 2017. House 1 is adjacent to a corn kiln at NM
103094 747578. This work was undertaken as part of an on-
going project to record upstanding settlement remains on the
island of Tiree.
Archive: acfabaseline.info
Funder: Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists
(Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (2017) 18, p. 62.)Cnoc Earnal, Tiree
Measured survey
Elaine Black – Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists
NM 03153 47578 A group of four 19th-century houses,
enclosures and a corn kiln were surveyed at Cnoc Earnal
on 19 April 2017. House 1 is adjacent to a corn kiln at NM
103094 747578. This work was undertaken as part of an on-
going project to record upstanding settlement remains on the
island of Tiree.
Archive: acfabaseline.info
Funder: Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists
(Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (2017) 18, p. 62.) -
Noust, Gott Bay
This large joust is at the west end of Gott Bay, and sits under a modern shed.This large joust is at the west end of Gott Bay, and sits under a modern shed. -
Large turf dyke, Earnal, Gott
Two sections of a broad turf bank have been recently (2017) discovered on the Earnal sliabh.
An intermittent linear feature, that can seen to be continuous on LiDAR imaging
Heather-covered turf
Ditches on both sides
Visible on LIDAR low resolution 10 m
Extends 1 km
1. NM02612 46321 55 m long; 6 m wide; 0.8 m high
2. NM01926 46405 150 m long; 7 m wide; 0.5 m high
The turf from this area was heavily extracted at the end of the 18th century as the island experienced fuel poverty. This may account for the fragmentary remains of this structure.Two sections of a broad turf bank have been recently (2017) discovered on the Earnal sliabh.
An intermittent linear feature, that can seen to be continuous on LiDAR imaging
Heather-covered turf
Ditches on both sides
Visible on LIDAR low resolution 10 m
Extends 1 km
1. NM02612 46321 55 m long; 6 m wide; 0.8 m high
2. NM01926 46405 150 m long; 7 m wide; 0.5 m high
The turf from this area was heavily extracted at the end of the 18th century as the island experienced fuel poverty. This may account for the fragmentary remains of this structure. -
Rotary quern
Bottom section of hand quern from Gott. This could date from the Medieval to the nineteenth century.Bottom section of hand quern from Gott. This could date from the Medieval to the nineteenth century. -
Kerbed cairn, Gott
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Tiree Mounds Geophysical and field surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading
NM 0359 4540 Beinn Ghott
Kerbed cairn situated in an improved field some 150 m E from Dún an t-Sithein (NM04NW 15). The cairn is in a relatively good state of preservation. It is 4 m in diameter and not more than 0.3 m high. At least eight kerb stones (0.3–0.5 m in size) survive on the northern side of the cairn. A small standing stone, 0.5 m high, protrudes through the cairn material at the SE edge of the cairn. This marker stone arrangement has a close parallel with the kerbed cairn on Fuday, off Barra (Branigan and Foster 2002).
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, 51–2.
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Tiree Mounds Geophysical and field surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading
NM 0359 4540 Beinn Ghott
Kerbed cairn situated in an improved field some 150 m E from Dún an t-Sithein (NM04NW 15). The cairn is in a relatively good state of preservation. It is 4 m in diameter and not more than 0.3 m high. At least eight kerb stones (0.3–0.5 m in size) survive on the northern side of the cairn. A small standing stone, 0.5 m high, protrudes through the cairn material at the SE edge of the cairn. This marker stone arrangement has a close parallel with the kerbed cairn on Fuday, off Barra (Branigan and Foster 2002).
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, 51–2.