Objects
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Oldest peat samples from Coll and Tiree
1. Coll 9210 BP (Wicks, 2012, p. 37)
2. Tiree 9474 years +/- 32 years BP (Jim Hill)Type: PaperIsland: Tiree and Coll -
Karen Wicks 2012 PhD on the vegetation history of Coll and Tiree
Karen Wicks (2012) ‘Vegetation history, human impact and climate change during prehistory: an island perspective of the isles of Tiree, Coll and north-west Mull PhD thesis, University of Reading.
Not currently available onlineType: PaperIsland: Tiree and Coll -
‘Plan of possible Manx Norse house, Fiskary, Coll’
NM20437 54320
Drawn by ‘JH’ in 2010
Photographs by Roland Spencer-Jones -
Antiquarians of Tiree
Bishop William Reeves in 1852, John Sands 1882, Erskine Beveridge in 1896 and 1897, Andrew Henderson Bishop and Mungo Buchanan in 1912, Ludovic MacLellan Mann from 1906 to 1921, John and Archibald Campbell, the future ninth and tenth Dukes of Argyll respectively, and George Holleyman, stationed on Tiree in 1942.Type: Paper -
Holleyman collection: evaluation by MacKie
Typed assessment of George Holleyman`s collections by Dr Euan MacKie. -
Bronze cauldron repair
Journal extract `A bronze cauldron of the Iron Age from Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire` by Jean Burns, MA, B Litt.
Academic paper about an Iron Age bronze cauldron, part of the A. Henderson Bishop collection at the Hunterian Museum, found in Lanarkshire, other Scottish bronze cauldrons and methods of repairing them. Two copies (second with hand-drawn illustration by Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, of how the `paper clip` repair was made).Type: PaperIsland: Tiree and Coll -
Iron Age pottery: including theories about the presence of post-firing drilled holes
Information about Iron Age pottery design, markings and uses from a CBA Research Report, including theories about the presence of post-firing drilled holes. Includes printed email from Ian Hewitt regarding holes in Iron Age pottery. CraggansType: PaperIsland: Tiree and Coll -
Holleyman collection: inventory
Inventory of the George Holleyman collection held at An Iodhlann 2013
Printed list of numbered items in the George Holleyman collection of artefacts, photographs, manuscripts and notebooks, held at An Iodhlann. Copy included at the start of the G Holleyman collection file folder. George Holleyman FSA was an archaeologist who was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. He carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century, along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.