1788
Caledonian Mercury, 27 November 1788, p.3
‘Some days ago, there was found, in an earthen pot, in a field on the island of Tyrie, one of the Hebrides, a few ounces of the silver pennies of Henry III of England. That monarch began his reign in the 1216, and reigned fifty-six years and twenty days. The coins here taken notice of, seventy of which, in a gentleman’s possession in Glasgow, are in general in fine conservation; all of them have on the obverse the king’s full face and head crowned; in his right hand a sceptre pointed with pearls cross-wise; in the legend, Henricus Rex. The reverse bears a cross moline voided, which only extends to the edge of the inner circle, (and denotes his first coinage, or before his thirty-second year), between a cross of four pellets in each quarter, with the moneyer’s name, and place where coined; such as, Adam on Norh. Fulre on Oxon. Miles on Winc. Pieres on Lic. Nicole on Eve. R.— on Nicol (probably Lincoln). and Roger of Ronce; for Norwich, Oxford, Winchester, Leicester, and Evesham; what the two last imports we do not affirm. Twenty-six of them have either Abel, Ilger, Rauf, Raulf, Ricard. T. Walter or Willelm. with the abbreviation of on Lu. Lun. Lund, or Lunde. for London. Eighteen have the Epigraph of Joan, Henri, Henry, Samuel, Simon, or Simun, with the contraction of a Can. Cant or Cante. for Canterbury. Others are so imperfectly struck, and some so obliterated by the corroding hand of time, as to put it out of our power to speak of them with any certainty; although the names of Arnaud and Tomas, with other partial inscriptions, are legible upon many of them; but we do not chuse to venture further conjectures. A considerable number of Savon coins were also found on that island, in the month of August 1782.’ (Caledonian Mercury, 27 November 1788, p.3)

There was lately found in an earthen pot, in a field in the Island of Tyrie, one of the Hebrides, a few ounces of the silver pennies of Henry III. of England. That monarch began his reign in the year 1216 and reigned 56 years. The coins here taken notice of, seventy of which are in a gentleman’s possession in Glasgow, are in general in fine preservation; all of them have on the obverse his full face and head crowned, in his right hand a sceptre pointed with pearls crosswise, in the legend Henricus Rex. The reverse bears a cross moline voided, which only extends to the edge of the inner circle (and denotes his first coinage, or before his thirty-second year) between a cross of four pellets in each quarter, with the moneyer’s name, and place where coined: such as Adam on Norh. Fulre on Oxen. Miles on Wine. Pieres on Lie. Nicole on Eve. R- on Nicol (Lincoln[)], and Roger of Ronce, for Norwich, Oxford, Winchester, Leicester, and Evesham; what the two last import we do not affirm. Twenty-six of them have either Abel, Iger, Rauf, Raulf, Ricard, T. Walter or Willelm. with the abbreviations of on Lu. Lun. Lund, or Lunde. for London. Eighteen have the epigraphs of Joan, Henri, Henry, Samuel, Simon or Simun, with the contraction of on Can. Cant. Cante. for Canterbury. Others are so imperfectly struck, and some so obliterated by the corroding hand of time, as to put it out of our power to speak of them with any certainty; although the names of Arnaud and Thomas, with other partial inscriptions, are legible upon many of them.’ (Scots Magazine, 50 (Dec. 1788), p. 617.)

Short Cross Pennies issued first in 1180 in reign of Henry II, and last issued in 1247 during reign of Henry III

1959
Dolley, R. H. M. (1959) ‘A Note on the Chronology of some ‘Short Cross’ finds from the British Isles’ British Numismatic Journal, 29, pp. 297–321.

p. 259
‘[Inventory] No. 358 Tiree c.1247

pp. 318–9: ‘Mrs. J. S. Martin’s recent researches into the Ruding MSS. preserved in the British Museum enable much to be added to Lindsay’s brief mention. On the basis of a transcript of the Reverend Richard Southgate’s almost contemporary listing of a portion of the hoard presented to the British Museum, the date of discovery can be moved back a year, and we now know that both this hoard and the 1782 find of tenth-century pence had been concealed in pottery containers buried between two and three feet of the surface. The find-spots of both hoards are indicated, and that of the Short Cross hoard is given as the immediate vicinity of Dun Hiadin. More important still, Mrs. Martin has been able to identify no fewer than forty coins in the British Museum as being from this hoard, and we can now be reasonably certain that this hoard follows the same general pattern as those from Eccles and Colchester. Once again, too, Lawrence class VIII seems to have been completely absent.
Class Ia Exeter, Iordan
Class Ib Winchester, Gocelm
Class III Canterbury, Ulard
Class IV London, Fulke; Norwich, Iohan
Class Va Canterbury, Hue; London, Ricard; York, Davi
Class Vb Canterbury, Arnaud, Robert, Simon; Ipswich, Alisandre, Iohan; Lincoln Andreu, Hue; London, Beneit; Winchester, Andreu
Class Vc Canterbury, Iohan M; London, Adam, Rauf, Walter
Class VI Bury St Edmunds, Rauf; Canterbury, Hiun, Roger
Class VII Bury St Edmunds, Norman, Simun, Willem; Canterbury, Ioan Fr., Iun, Osmund, Salemun, Tomas, Willem; London, Elis, Giffrei, Ledulf, Nichole, Raulf, Terri
Anomalous ‘Goldvine on Eisi’
Two further coins are listed but cannot now be traced. The moneyers are ‘Reinard’ (= Reinaud) of Canterbury who struck Lawrence classes II, III, and IV, and Walter of Canterbury who struck classes V, VI, and VII. The class VII coins include all three varieties distinguished in Lawrence’s 1914 paper, and it is clear that the hoard was deposited towards the end of the currency of class VIIc—it will be noticed that the six London coins include all four of the class VII’ new’ moneyers whom the Eccles and Colchester hoards suggest to have struck on a quite exceptional scale.
There is, thus, no reason to disassociate the Tiree hoard from the same general grouping as the English finds from Eccles and Colchester, and one cannot help wondering how Andrew would have woven it into his ‘Buried Treasure’ paper had he been aware of its composition. The Inventory dating c. 1247 seems too late, even for a find from outside England, and again a dating c. 1240 seems as much as can be hazarded on the present evidence.’

1964
Dolley, R.H.M (1964) ‘The Date of the Medieval Coin-Hoard from Tom a’ Bhuraich in Aberdeenshire’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 95, pp. 241–248.

Listing of Tiree coin hoard (Inventory 358) on p. 246

Thompson, J.D.A. (1956) Inventory of British coin hoards, A.D.600-1500 (Royal Numismatic Society.

1993
Manville, H. E. (1993) ‘Additions and Corrections to Thompson’s Inventory and Brown and Dolley’s Coin Hoards’, pp.91–115.
p. 103: ‘No. 358. [reference to Scots magazine of December 1788] Note: A shorter version of this account was printed in GM [Gentleman’s Magazine] 58, Dec. 1788, 1112-3. Footnotes in the Inventory correct some of the attributions: e.g. probably CIC instead of LIC and FOLCE for Fulpe – although the SM text has Fulre.’

Collections:

Currently 21 short cross silver pennies in the British Museum and 1 ingot ascribed to Tiree

No coins National Museum of Scotland ascribed to Tiree

No coins Glasgow Museums Collection ascribed to Tiree